2 Samuel 21:14 NLT,NIV,ESV

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

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 21:14

Zelah; a place in Benjamin, mentioned Joshua 18:28. After that; after those things were done which were before related, i.e. after they were hanged up; for by that God was pacified, and not by their burial. So the relative belongs to the remoter antecedent. Or if this relate to what was last mentioned, the meaning is, that God was pleased to restore the blessing of plenty to the land. 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

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 2 Samuel 21:1-14

2 Samuel 21:1-14Then there was a famine in the days of David three years. The quickening of David’s conscience by Rizpah’s exampleSome years since it was found that many returned emigrants were ending their days in English workhouses. When the authorities inquired into the causes of this fact, they ascertained that in nearly every case those who were then paupers had formerly prospered in the colonies; but they had forsaken their prosperity and come back to England, because they could not bear... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 2 Samuel 21:10-14

2 Samuel 21:10-14And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth.Rizpah: or, relative sufferingWe may generally see the cause of any suffering if we only go far enough. David began to enquire, and found out the cause. The demand of the Gibeonites was in harmony only with that crude, cruel, harsh age. They demanded that the survivors of Saul’s race should be handed over to them, that they might do that which they thought would appease outraged law. Some have supposed that David was glad of the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 2 Samuel 21:14

2Sa 21:14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land. Ver. 14. And after that God was entreated for the land. ] So pleasing to God is the due execution of justice, that thereby the wickednesses of the wicked are expiated, as to temporal punishment. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 2 Samuel 21:14

buried: 2 Samuel 3:32, 2 Samuel 4:12 Zelah: Joshua 18:28, 1 Samuel 10:2, Zelzah God: 2 Samuel 24:25, Exodus 32:27-Joel :, Numbers 25:13, Joshua 7:26, 1 Kings 18:40, 1 Kings 18:41, Jeremiah 14:1-Judges :, Joel 2:18, Joel 2:19, Amos 7:1-Joshua :, Jonah 1:15, Zechariah 6:8 Reciprocal: Numbers 25:11 - turned my Deuteronomy 19:13 - but thou 1 Kings 18:45 - there was 1 Chronicles 21:7 - he smote Job 37:13 - for mercy Ezekiel 16:42 - will I read more

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

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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 21:14

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

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

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

The Biblical Illustrator - 2 Samuel 21:1-14

The Biblical Illustrator - 2 Samuel 21:10-14

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 2 Samuel 21:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 2 Samuel 21:14

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