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Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 21:15-22

David’s Final Victory Over The Philistines Portrayed In Terms Of The Defeat Of The Philistine ‘Giants’ By David’s Mighty Men (2 Samuel 21:15-19 ). The defeat of the Philistines at the commencement of David’s reign over all Israel has already been depicted in 2 Samuel 5:17-25; 2 Samuel 8:1. Now it is re-emphasised and we learn that there were in fact periods of continual on and off warfare leading up to their being finally subdued. But the great emphasis is on the part played by David’s mighty... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 21:14-22

1 Samuel 21:15-Ezra : . David’ s Heroes (first section). Cf. above. (J).— These verses are probably from the same source as 2 Samuel 23:8 ff., and the source is no doubt ancient. The events in 2 Samuel 21:15 ff. and 2 Samuel 23:8 ff. belong to various periods in the life of David. 2 Samuel 21:15-Esther : . Abishai Rescues David.— The text of 2 Samuel 21:16 is corrupt; the general sense seems to have been:At Gob, some place otherwise unknown, David was in danger from a giant whose name has... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 21:15

These wars, though here related, were transacted long before this time: of which See Poole "2 Samuel 21:1". For it is no way probable, either that the Philistines, being so fully and perfectly subdued by David, 2 Samuel 8:1, should in his days be in a capacity of waging war with the Israelites; or that David in his old age would undertake to fight with a giant, or that his people would permit him to do so. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Samuel 21:15-22

CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES—2 Samuel 21:15. “Moreover,” or, and. “Yet,” rather, again. “This refers generally to earlier wars with the Philistines, and has probably been taken without alteration from the chronicles employed by our author, where the account which follows was attached to notices of other wars.” (Keil.) “Probably this fragment belongs chronologically in the group 2 Samuel 5:18-25, in favour of which is the fact that David is here already king of all Israel, since he is called (2... 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

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 2 Samuel 21:15

2Sa 21:15 Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint. Ver. 15. Moreover the Philistines ] Trusting to their champions, which yet were all cut off, and way made thereby for Solomon’s quiet and peaceable government. And David waxed faint. ] As being senex emeritus, his best days were done: it was otherwise with him than when he slew Goliath. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 2 Samuel 21:15

the Philistines: 2 Samuel 5:17, 2 Samuel 5:22, 1 Chronicles 20:4 and David waxed faint: Joshua 14:10, Joshua 14:11, Psalms 71:9, Psalms 71:18, Psalms 73:26, Ecclesiastes 12:3, Isaiah 40:28-Amos :, Jeremiah 9:23, Jeremiah 9:24, 1 Peter 1:24, 1 Peter 1:25 Reciprocal: Genesis 6:4 - giants 2 Samuel 8:1 - And after Psalms 9:5 - rebuked Psalms 18:38 - General Psalms 60:8 - triumph Psalms 108:9 - over Philistia read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 21:15

15. Yet war again This expression indicates that the document here used by our author contained also accounts of other and earlier wars with the Philistines. Went down From the heights of Judea to the great plain of Philistia. Waxed faint Was becoming exhausted. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 21:15-22

HEROIC DEEDS OF DAVID’S MEN IN THE PHILISTINE WARS, 2 Samuel 21:15-22. “The brief accounts contained in these verses of different heroic feats were probably taken from a history of David’s wars drawn up in the form of chronicles, and are here introduced as practical proofs of the gracious deliverance of David out of the hands of all his foes, for which he praises the Lord his God in the psalm of thanksgiving which follows, so that the enumeration of these feats is to be regarded as supplying an... read more

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