Verse 2 Samuel 21:12. Took the bones of Saul] The reader will recollect that the men of Jabesh-gilead burned the bodies of Saul and his sons, and buried the remaining bones under a tree at Jabesh. See 1 Samuel 31:12-9. These David might have digged up again, in order to bury them in the family sepulchre.
FROM THE STREET OF BETH-SHAN - This was the wide place just inside the gate of an Oriental city, bounded therefore by the city wall (compare the marginal reference). Here, as the place of concourse, t...
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...
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...
MEN. lords, or masters (Hebrew. _baalim). Compare_ 1 Samuel 31:10; 1 Samuel 31:13. STREET. The open space by the gate (2 Chronicles 32:6;...
_David went_ Touched by Rizpah's maternal devotion, and wishing to shew that he had no personal enmity to the house of Saul. _the men of Jabesh-gilead_ THE CITIZENS, lit. _lords_or _possessors_of Jabe...
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...
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...
_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...
_AND DAVID WENT AND TOOK THE BONES OF SAUL AND THE BONES OF JONATHAN HIS SON FROM THE MEN OF JABESH-GILEAD, WHICH HAD STOLEN THEM FROM THE STREET OF BETHSHAN, WHERE THE PHILISTINES HAD HANGED THEM, WH...
21:12 men (a-19) Heb. _ baali_ , or 'citizens,' as Judges 9:2 ,Judges 9:47 . place (b-29) Or 'broadway.'...
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...
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...
TOOK THE BONES OF SAUL. — Moved by the story of Rizpah’s tender care, and wishing to show that he cherished no enmity against the house of Saul, David buried honourably the remains of Saul and of his...
וַ יֵּ֣לֶךְ דָּוִ֗ד וַ יִּקַּ֞ח אֶת ־עַצְמֹ֤ו
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...
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...
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...
(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,...
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...
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...
AND DAVID WENT AND TOOK THE BONES OF SAUL, AND THE BONES OF JONATHAN HIS SON, FROM THE MEN OF JABESHGILEAD,.... Which, according to Bunting t, was fifty two miles from Jerusalem; though perhaps David...
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, when...
_He defended it_ So that the Philistines could neither burn the corn, nor carry it away, nor tread it down. _The Lord wrought a great victory_ By his hand. How great soever the bravery of the instrume...
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...
And David, touched by this evidence of a mother's faithfulness and loving care, WENT AND TOOK THE BONES OF SAUL AND THE BONES OF JONATHAN, HIS SON, FROM THE MEN OF JABESH-GILEAD, in the country east o...
THE DIFFICULTY WITH THE GIBEONITES ADJUSTED...
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...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
2 Samuel 21:12 David H1732 went H3212 (H8799) took H3947 (H8799) bones H6106 Saul H7586 bones H6106 Jon
PHILISTINES Compare (1 Samuel 31:3 (_ See Scofield) - (1 Samuel 31:3). _...
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...
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...
_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...
_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...
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...
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
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...
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....
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...
1 Chronicles 10:1; 1 Chronicles 10:8; 1 Samuel 28:4; 1 Samuel 31:1;...