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Verse 2 Samuel 21:9. _IN THE BEGINNING OF BARLEY HARVEST._] This
happened in Judea about the vernal equinox, or the 21st of _March_....
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IN THE FIRST DAYS - The barley harvest (about the middle or toward the
end of April) was earlier than the wheat harvest Exodus 9:31; Ruth
1:22....
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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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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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_in the first_days] Barley harvest preceded wheat harvest, and began
about the middle or end of April. Cp. Exodus 9:31-32; Ruth 1:22; Ruth
2:23....
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AND HE DELIVERED THEM INTO THE HANDS OF THE GIBEONITES— David had
given Saul his oath, that "he would not cut off his seed after him,
nor destroy his name out of his father's house." Had Saul's family...
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2. The Three Years of Famine, 2 Samuel 21:1-22.
_The Gibeonites Avenged._ 2 Samuel 21:1-9
Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after
year; and David inquired of the Lord. An...
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_AND HE DELIVERED THEM INTO THE HANDS OF THE GIBEONITES, AND THEY
HANGED THEM IN THE HILL BEFORE THE LORD: AND THEY FELL ALL SEVEN
TOGETHER, AND WERE PUT TO DEATH IN THE DAYS OF HARVEST, IN THE FIRST...
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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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THE BEGINNING OF BARLEY HARVEST. — This was immediately after the
Passover (Leviticus 23:10), and therefore about the middle of April.
The rains of autumn began in October, so that Rizpah’s watch must...
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וַֽ יִּתְּנֵ֞ם בְּ יַ֣ד הַ
גִּבְעֹנִ֗ים וַ
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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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A DEVOTED MOTHER
2 Samuel 21:1
The time of this famine cannot be fixed with certainty. Probably it
took place before Absalom's rebellion. The reason for it was found in
Saul's slaughter of the Gibeon...
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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 he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they
hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell [all] seven
together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the (g)
f...
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_Lord. The prophets had frequented this hill, 1 Kings viii. 4, 13. So
the Gabaonites crucified these seven, before an ancient altar, as
victims to appease God's anger, (Calmet) for the treaty with the...
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(7) But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of
Saul, because of the LORD'S oath that was between them, between David
and Jonathan the son of Saul. (8) But the king took the two s...
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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 HE DELIVERED THEM INTO THE HANDS OF THE GIBEONITES,.... The two
sons of Rizpah and the five sons of Merab, two sons of Saul and five
grandsons:
AND THEY HANGED THEM IN THE HILL BEFORE THE LORD; i...
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And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they
hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell [all] seven
together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first...
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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 he, David, DELIVERED THEM, the seven men selected by him, INTO THE
HANDS OF THE GIBEONITES, AND THEY HANGED THEM, impaled them with
extended limbs, IN THE HILL BEFORE THE LORD; AND THEY FELL ALL S...
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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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1-9 Every affliction arises from sin, and should lead us to repent
and humble ourselves before God; but some troubles especially show
that they are sent to bring sin to remembrance. God's judgments o...
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HE DELIVERED THEM INTO THE HANDS OF THE GIBEONITES. QUEST. How could
David do this, when he had sworn that he would not cut off Saul's
seed, 1 SAMUEL 24:21,22 ? ANSW. Because he had special warrant an...
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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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_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 21:9 The BEGINNING OF BARLEY HARVEST was
April.
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES—
2 Samuel 21:1. “THEN.” Rather, _And_, consequently there is
nothing to indicate the period when the events here recorded took
place, and many commentators consider that...
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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 Samuel 15:33; 2 Kings 24:3; 2 Kings 24:4; 2 Samuel 21:6; 2 Samuel