2Sa 21:1-6, 2Ch 36:13, Pro 20:25, Eze 17:12-21, Zec 5:3-4, Mal 3:5 | TSK | STEP | The three years' famine for the Gibeonites ceases, by hanging seven of Saul's sons. Rizpah's kindness unto the dead. David buries the bones of Saul and Jonathan in his father's sepulchre. Four battles against the Philistines, wherein four valiants of David slay four giants. A.M. 2986. B.C. 1018. An. Ex. Ex. Is. 473. a famine. enquired. Heb. sought the face, etc. of the Lord. It is. Saul.

2 Samuel 21:1-6

1 The three years' famine for the Gibeonites ceases, by hanging seven of Saul's sons.

10 Rizpah's kindness unto the dead.

12 David buries the bones of Saul and Jonathan in his father's sepulchre.

15 Four battles against the Philistines, wherein four valiants of David slay four giants.

A.M. 2986. B.C. 1018. An. Ex. Ex. Is. 473. a famine.

Ge 12:10; 26:1; 41:57; 42:1; 43:1; Le 26:19,20,26; 1Ki 17:1; 18:2

2Ki 6:25; 8:1; Jer 14:1-18

enquired. Heb. sought the face, etc. of the Lord.

5:19,23; Nu 27:21; 1Sa 23:2,4,11; Job 5:8-10; 10:2; Ps 50:15; 91:15

It is.

Jos 7:1,11,12

Saul.

1Sa 22:17-19

now the.

Jos 9:3-21

the Amorites.The Gibeonites were Hivites, not Amorites, as appears from Jos 6:19; but Amorites is a name often given to the Canaanites in general.

Ge 15:16

in his zeal.

De 7:16; 1Sa 14:44; 15:8,9; 2Ki 10:16,31; Lu 9:54,55; Joh 16:2

Ro 10:2; Ga 4:17

wherewith.

Ex 32:30; Le 1:4; 1Sa 2:25; Mic 6:6,7; Heb 9:22; 10:4-12

bless.

20:19

We will, etc. or, It is not silver nor gold that we have todo with Saul, or his house; neither pertains it to us to kill, etc. no silver.

Ps 49:6-8; 1Pe 1:18,19

The man.

1; Es 9:24,25; Mt 7:2

devised. or, cut us off.

Da 9:26

Let seven.As God accepted the expiation here demanded, we must suppose that both the enquiry of David, and the answer of the Gibeonites, were directed by some open or secret intimation from him.

hang.

17:23; 18:10; Ge 40:19,22; Nu 25:4,5; De 21:22; Jos 8:29; 10:26

Ezr 6:11; Es 9:10,13,14; Mt 27:5

in.

1Sa 10:26; 11:4

whom the Lord did choose. or, the chosen of the Lord.

1Sa 9:16,17; 10:1,24; Ac 13:21

2 Chronicles 36:13

rebelled.

2Ki 24:20; Jer 52:2,3; Eze 17:11-20

who had.

Jos 9:15,19,20; 2Sa 21:2

stiffened.

2Ki 17:4; Ne 9:16,17; Isa 48:4

hardened.

Ex 8:15,32; 9:17; Ne 9:29; Ro 2:4,5; Heb 3:8,13

Proverbs 20:25

a snare.

18:7; Le 5:15; 22:10-15; 27:30; Mal 3:8-10

after.

Le 27:9,10,31; Nu 30:2-16; Ec 5:4-6; Mt 5:33

Ezekiel 17:12-21

to the.

2:5,8; 3:9; 12:9; Isa 1:2

Know.

24:19; Ex 12:26; De 6:20; Jos 4:6,21; Mt 13:51; 15:16,17; 16:11

Mr 4:13; Lu 9:45; Ac 8:30

Behold.

3; 1:2; 2Ki 24:10-16; 2Ch 36:9,10; Jer 22:24-28

and led.

Isa 39:7; Jer 52:31-34

hath taken.

5; 2Ki 24:17; Jer 37:1

taken an oath of him. Heb. brought him to an oath.

2Ch 36:13; Jer 5:2

he hath also.

2Ki 24:15,16; Jer 24:1; 29:2

the kingdom.

6; 29:14; De 28:43; 1Sa 2:7,30; Ne 9:36,37; La 5:10; Mt 22:17-21

base.Or, low; a tributary kingdom, dependent on the king of Babylon.

but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand. Heb. tokeep his covenant, to stand to it.

Jer 27:12-17; 38:17

he rebelled.

7; 2Ki 24:20; 2Ch 36:13; Jer 52:3

in.

De 17:16; Isa 30:1-4; 31:1-3; 36:6-9; Jer 37:5-7

Shall he prosper.

9; De 29:12-15; Jer 22:29,30

shall he escape.

18; 21:25; Pr 19:5; Jer 32:4; 34:3; 38:18,23; Mt 23:33; Heb 2:3

or shall.

Ps 55:23

whose oath.

18,19; 16:59; Ex 20:7; Nu 30:2; Jos 9:20; 2Sa 21:2; Ps 15:4

Ex 8:2; Ho 10:4; Zec 5:3,4; Mal 3:5; Ro 1:31; 1Ti 1:10; 2Ti 3:3

even.

10; 12:13; Jer 32:4,5; 34:3-5; 39:7; 52:11

shall.

29:6,7; Isa 36:6; Jer 37:7; La 4:17

by.

4:2; Jer 33:5; 52:4

Seeing.Though Zedekiah's oath had been given to a heathen, a conqueror, and a tyrant, yet God considered the violation of it a most aggravated sin against Him, and determined to punish him for it.

lo, he.

1Ch 29:24; 2Ch 30:8; *margins

La 5:6

he shall.

surely.

21:23-27; De 5:11; Jer 5:2,9; 7:9-15

I will spread.

12:13; 32:3; Jos 10:16-18; 2Sa 18:9; 2Ch 33:11; Job 10:16; Ec 9:12

Jer 39:5-7; La 1:13; 4:20; Ho 7:12; Lu 21:35

plead.

20:35,36; 38:22; Jer 2:9,35; 50:44; Ho 2:2; Mic 6:2

all his fugitives.