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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 21:9

The beginning of barley harvest. The barley became ripe in April, about the time of the Passover ( Deuteronomy 16:9 ). The wheat was not. ripe till Pentecost. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 21:4

No silver, nor gold ... - Money payments as a compensation for blood-guilt were very common among many nations. The law, too, in Numbers 35:31-32, presupposes the existence of the custom which it prohibits. In like manner the speech of the Gibeonites implies that such a payment as they refuse would be a not unusual proceeding.Neither ... shalt thou kill any man in Israel - They mean that it is not against the nation of Israel, but against the individual Saul, that they cry for vengeance. The... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 21:6

Seven men - Seven was a sacred number not only with the Hebrews but with other Oriental nations Numbers 23:1, Numbers 23:29, and is therefore brought in on this occasion when the judicial death of the sons of Saul was a religious act intended to appease the wrath of God for the violation of an oath Numbers 25:4.Whom the Lord did choose - Rather, “the Lord’s chosen,” or elect. The same phrase is applied to Moses Psalms 106:23, to the Israelites Isaiah 43:20, and to Christ Isaiah 42:1. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 21:7

The Lord’s oath - The calamity brought upon Israel by Saul’s breach of the oath to the Gibeonites would make David doubly careful in the matter of his own oath to Jonathan. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 21:8

Rizpah - See the marginal reference. A foreign origin was possibly the cause of the selection of Rizpah’s sons as victims.Sons of Michal - An obvious error for “Merab” (1 Samuel 18:19 note). read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 21:9

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. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 21:3

2 Samuel 21:3. 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 made the satisfaction which the Gibeonites themselves should require. That ye may bless the inheritance of the Lord That, atonement being made, and God’s anger being turned away, his inheritance may be blessed, and plenty restored again to Israel. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 21:4

2 Samuel 21:4. We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, &c. Neither silver nor gold was a just equivalent for the loss they had sustained by Saul and his bloody house. Neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel Except of Saul’s family, as it here follows. The marginal reading, however, seems preferable, Neither pertains it to us to kill any man, &c. They were in such a state of servitude as did not allow them to take the only proper retribution, blood for blood. This... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 21:5-6

2 Samuel 21:5-6. They answered, The man that consumed us, &c. They desired no reparation of private damages, or revenge of injuries; all they required was that a public sacrifice should be made to justice, and to the divine vengeance inflicted upon the land. Let seven of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up before the Lord As a satisfaction to his honour for an injustice and cruelty committed in defiance of a solemn oath given in his holy name. But it may be... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 21:7-8

2 Samuel 21:7-8. The king spared, &c. For the Gibeonites desiring only such a number, it was at David’s choice whom to spare. The son of Jonathan This is added to distinguish him from the other Mephibosheth, 2 Samuel 21:8. Because of the Lord’s oath, &c. This was a just reason for not delivering him up. The five sons of Michal, whom she brought up for Adriel In the original it is, whom she bare to Adriel. And as Michal was not the wife of Adriel, but her elder sister Merab,... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 21:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 21:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 21:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 21:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 21:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 21:9

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 21:3

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 21:4

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 21:5-6

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 21:7-8

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