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IV. THE APPENDIX TO THE HISTORY OF DAVID
1. The Famines and the Wars with the Philistines
CHAPTER 21
_ 1. The Famine and the Gibeonites (2 Samuel 21:1)_
2. The Wars with the Philistines (2 Samuel...
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DAVID'S HEROES (first section). _Cf._ above. (J). These verses are
probably from the same source as 2 Samuel 23:8 ff., and the source is
no doubt ancient. The events in 2 Samuel 21:15 ff. and 2 Samuel...
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1 SAMUEL 21-24. These Chapter s form an appendix of material from
various sources. One of the editors, perhaps the one to whom the book
substantially owes its present form, seems to have met with
diff...
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AND JONATHAN. Some codices, with two early printed editions, and
Septuagint, read "the bones of Jonathan".
ALL. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "according to
all".
GOD. Hebrew. _E...
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Burial of the bones of Saul and his sons
11. The curious addition of the Sept. to this verse, "and they were
unfastened, and Dan the son of Joash, who was of the descendants of
the giant, took them d...
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_Jonathan his son_ The Sept. adds, "and the bones of them that were
hanged."
_Zelah_ Enumerated among the towns of Benjamin in Joshua 18:28, but
not yet identified. _Beit Jala_near Bethlehem, which h...
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AND RIZPAH THE DAUGHTER OF AIAH, &C.— Commentators have justly
observed from hence, that the hanging of these carcases for so long a
time in the open air, could not be in consequence of any command fr...
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_Rizpah's Sad Vigil._ 2 Samuel 21:10-14
10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for
her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped
upon them out of heave...
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_AND THE BONES OF SAUL AND JONATHAN HIS SON BURIED THEY IN THE COUNTRY
OF BENJAMIN IN ZELAH, IN THE SEPULCHRE OF KISH HIS FATHER: AND THEY
PERFORMED ALL THAT THE KING COMMANDED. AND AFTER THAT GOD WAS...
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THE FAMINE AND SOME EXPLOITS AGAINST THE PHILISTINES
1. _It is_ FOR SAUL, AND FOR _his_ BLOODY HOUSE] rather, 'upon Saul
and his house rests bloodshed.' THE GIBEONITES] The lives of the
Gibeonites had...
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DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL
2 SAMUEL
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 21
THE *GIBEONITES PUNISH SAUL’S FAMILY
V1 For three years while David was king, the people did not have
enough to eat. So David p...
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IN ZELAH. — According to Joshua 18:28 a town of Benjamin. It has not
been identified, but was probably near Gibeah....
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וַ יִּקְבְּר֣וּ אֶת ־עַצְמֹות
־שָׁא֣וּל וִ יה
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CHAPTER XXVIII
_ THE FAMINE._
2 Samuel 21:1.
WE now enter on the concluding part of the reign of David. Some of the
matters in which he was most occupied during this period are recorded
only in Chro...
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MORE GIANTS SLAIN
2 Samuel 21:12
It was in unsettled weather that Rizpah began her watch; but no
hardship daunted her, no cost was too great. She shielded the dear
remains from bird and beast till th...
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As at the close of the Book of Judges, so here, several matters are
dealt with not in chronological order, or related, but as illustrating
the times which have been under consideration.
In many sense...
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And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country
of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they
performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was...
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_Side of the mountain, or in distinct cavities. (Calmet) --- Many
suppose that Tsela, or Sela, is the name of a place (Menochius) not
far from Gabaa, Josue xviii. 28. (Calmet) --- Many proper names ar...
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(12) And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of
Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them
from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them,...
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In the sketch proposed of these books of scripture there is of course
no pretension to notice every point of interest they contain, but only
a general comprehensive view, as far as the Lord enables me...
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And, first of all, the government of God, who forgets nothing, and
with whom everything has its results, is recalled to David and to his
people by means of the Gibeonites. It is no longer necessary fo...
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AND THE BONES OF SAUL AND JONATHAN HIS SON,.... Together with those
who had been hanged:
BURIED THEY IN THE COUNTRY OF BENJAMIN IN ZELAH; a city in the tribe
of Benjamin, Joshua 18:28;
IN THE SEPULC...
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And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country
of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they
performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was...
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_He brought up the bones of Saul_, &c. From under the tree where they
were buried in Jabesh, 1 Samuel 31:13. _They gathered the bones of
them that were hanged_ Having first burned off the flesh which...
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1 The three yeeres famine for the Gibeonites, cease, by hanging seuen
of Sauls sonnes.
10 Rizpahs kindnes vnto the dead.
12 Dauid burieth the bones of Saul and Ionathan in his fathers
sepulchre.
15...
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And the bones of Saul and Jonathan, his son, buried they, most likely
with those of the seven executed men, IN THE COUNTRY OF BENJAMIN IN
ZELAH, IN THE SEPULCHER OF KISH, HIS FATHER, not far from Gibe...
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THE DIFFICULTY WITH THE GIBEONITES ADJUSTED...
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We cannot say with certainty when the events of this chapter occurred,
for they are not necessarily chronological, but spoken of as having
taken place "in the days of David." God sent a famine in the...
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10-14 That a guilty land should enjoy many years of plenty, calls for
gratitude; and we need not wonder misused abundance should be punished
with scarcity; yet how few are disposed to ask of the Lord...
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ZELAH; a place in Benjamin, mentioned JOSHUA 18:28. AFTER THAT; after
those things were done which were before related, i.e. after they were
hanged up; for by that God was pacified, and not by their b...
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CONTENTS: Three years famine. Saul's sons slain. War with Philistines.
CHARACTERS: God, David, Rizpah, Ishbi-benab, Abishai, Sebechai, Saph,
Elhanan, Jonathan.
CONCLUSION: When we are under God's ju...
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2 Samuel 21:1. _There was a famine three years,_ and in succession.
Men, under the aspects of dying, like the seamen in Jonah's case, are
led to the profoundest researches of conscience.
2 Samuel 21:8...
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_And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth._
RIZPAH: OR, RELATIVE SUFFERING
We may generally see the cause of any suffering if we only go far
enough. David began to enquire, and found out the ca...
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_Then there was a famine in the days of David three years._
THE QUICKENING OF DAVID’S CONSCIENCE BY RIZPAH’S EXAMPLE
Some years since it was found that many returned emigrants were ending
their days...
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2 SAMUEL 21:1 Epilogue. The last four chapters provide an epilogue to
David’s story. They contain six episodes, which are not necessarily
in chronological order (e.g., the first episode occurred “in t...
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2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 21:10 RIZPAH, mother of two of the men
hanged by the Gibeonites, sheltered their bodies from the birds and
wild animals (compare 1 Sam
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES—
2 Samuel 21:10. “UNTIL WATER DROPPED,” etc. The early rain usually
began in October. But rain may have been sent earlier as a token of
forgiveness. The reason of the bod...
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EXPOSITION
2 SAMUEL 21:1
THERE WAS A FAMINE IN THE DAYS OF DAVID; Hebrew, _and there was.
_There is an entire absence of any mark of time to show in what part
of David's reign this famine took place....
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Now in chapter twenty-one it is recorded that at this time,
There were three years of famine in the land; So David sought the
Lord. [Why the famine?] And the Lord said, The famine was in judgment
bec...
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1 Kings 18:40; 1 Kings 18:41; 1 Samuel 10:2; 2 Samuel 24:25; 2
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After that — After those things were done which were before related;
that is, after they were hanged up: for by that God was pacified, and
not by their burial....