Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
2 Samuel 21:3
Verse 2 Samuel 21:3. Wherewith shall I make the atonement] It is very strange that a choice of this kind should be left to such a people. Why not ask this of God himself?
Verse 2 Samuel 21:3. Wherewith shall I make the atonement] It is very strange that a choice of this kind should be left to such a people. Why not ask this of God himself?
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...
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...
_WHEREFORE DAVID SAID UNTO THE GIBEONITES, WHAT SHALL I DO FOR YOU? AND WHEREWITH SHALL I MAKE THE ATONEMENT, THAT YE MAY BLESS THE INHERITANCE OF THE LORD?_ Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites,...
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...
WHEREWITH SHALL I MAKE THE ATONEMENT?] i.e. what sum of money shall I pay as compensation? 4. RV 'It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to put any...
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...
MAKE THE ATONEMENT. — This is the same technical word as is used throughout the Law in connection with the propitiatory sacrifices. It means literally, _to cover up,_ and is here used in that literal...
וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר דָּוִד֙ אֶל ־הַ גִּבְעֹנִ֔ים מָ֥ה
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...
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...
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...
Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, (b) What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD? (b) With what may your wrath be appease...
_Atonement, to expiate the injury done to you by Saul; (Menochius) and that you may turn your curses into blessings. The ancients were convinced, that God attends to the imprecations of the innocent....
(3) Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD? It is probable, that as David had broug...
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...
WHEREFORE DAVID SAID UNTO THE GIBEONITES, WHAT SHALL I DO FOR YOU,.... By way of satisfaction for the injuries done them: AND WHEREWITH SHALL I MAKE THE ATONEMENT; for the offences committed, that so...
Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD? Ver. 3. _Wherefore David said to the Gibeon...
_David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you?_ Josephus supposes that when God acquainted David what was the occasion of the famine, he likewise declared that it should be removed if he ma...
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...
wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? And wherewith shall I make the atonement, expiate the wrong done and appease the Lord's anger, THAT YE MAY BLESS THE INHERITANCE OF T...
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...
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...
UNTO THE GIBEONITES; to some of the chief of them, who were to impart it to the rest. WHAT SHALL I DO FOR YOU? what satisfaction do you expect or require for the injuries formerly done to you? THAT YE...
2 Samuel 21:3 David H1732 said H559 (H8799) Gibeonites H1393 do H6213 (H8799) atonement H3722 (H8762) bless...
ATONEMENT (_ See Scofield) - (Exodus 29:33). _...
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...
_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 21:3 The Gibeonites’ request that SEVEN OF HIS SONS be given to them to be put to death ignores the command in Deuteronomy 24:16
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...
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 Samuel 2:25; 2 Samuel 20:19; Exodus 32:30; Hebrews 10:4; Hebrews