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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - 2 Samuel 21:1-14

The Difficulty with the Gibeonites Adjusted v. 1. Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year, three successive years, a fact which made the visitation seem a special punishment; and David enquired of the Lord, he sought the face of the Lord, by consulting with the high priest, after earnest prayer. And the Lord answered, It is for Saul and for his bloody house, the house upon which blood-guiltiness rested, because he slew the Gibeonites, he had put to death a... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - 2 Samuel 21:1-22

THIRD DIVISIONECLECTIC APPENDIX TO THE CONCLUSION OF THE HISTORY OF DAVID’S REIGNChaps. 21–24FIRST SECTIONThree Years’ Famine on account of Saul’s Crime against the Gibeonites, and Expiration of the Crime2 Samuel 21:1-141Then [And] there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year. And David inquired [sought the face]1 of the Lord [Jehovah]; and the Lord answered [Jehovah said], It is for Saul and for his bloody house [for the blood-guilty house2], because he slew the... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - 2 Samuel 21:12-22

More Giants Slain 2 Samuel 21:12-22 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 the falling rain gave assurance that the long famine was ended, 2 Samuel 21:10 , r.v. Her devotion seems to have aroused David to treat with similar honor the remains of Saul and Jonathan, and all were buried together in the sepulcher of Kish. Love ignites love, as fire kindles fire, without... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 21:1-22

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 senses they were the best times in the history of Israel, for during this period the theocratic monarchy was most perfectly realized. During the reign of Solomon there was more magnificence and material prosperity, but the seeds of dissension sown even under David worked toward the ultimate disruption... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 21:1-14

The Legacy Of Saul. YHWH Judges Israel With Famine Because Of The Great Sin Of The House Of Saul, A Judgment Which Is Only Removed At The Cost Of The Blood Of Saulides (2 Samuel 21:1-14 ). In this passage we are taken back to the time of Saul and learn of a major crime of Saul, which had not been mentioned previously, the attempted genocide of the Gibeonites who were under YHWH’s protection. It is a crime which summarises all his other crimes, for its seriousness (in ignoring an oath made to... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 21:1-14

1 Samuel 21-24. These chapters 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 difficulties in an attempted rearrangement of some of the material; finding no other convenient place for 2 Samuel 21:1-2 Chronicles :, 2 Samuel 24, he added them at the end, as a kind of appendix. He or someone else inserted between them the catalogue of heroes ( 2 Samuel 21:15-Song of Solomon :, 2... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 21:13

Having first burnt off the flesh which remained upon them when they were taken down. Compare 1 Samuel 31:10, &c. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Samuel 21:10-14

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 bodies being left unburied, contrary to Deuteronomy 21:23, probably was that the death of these men being the expiation of a violated oath they were to remain until the fall of rain should give the assurance that God’s anger was appeased and the national sin forgiven.” (Biblical Commentary.)2 Samuel... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 21:1-22

Chapter 21Now 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 because of the treatment of Saul of the Gibeonites. For Saul had killed many of the Gibeonites ( 2 Samuel 21:1 ).Now this is interesting to me because when Joshua was coming in to conquer the land, God said to Joshua, "Don't make a covenant with any of the people in the land. You're not to... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 21:1-22

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 . The five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul. Merab, not Michal, was married to Adriel. Therefore the sons are called Michal’s after the Hebrew manner of speaking, because as a mother, having no children of her own, she had undertaken to bring them up. See Genesis 16:2; Genesis 30:3;... read more