Exodus 34:7

Keeping.

20:6; De 5:10; Ne 1:5; 9:32; Ps 86:15; Jer 32:18; Da 9:4

forgiving.

Ps 103:3; 130:4; Da 9:9; Mic 7:18; Mt 6:14,15; 12:31; 18:32-35

Lu 7:42,48; Ac 5:31; 13:38; Ro 4:7,8; Eph 1:7; 4:32; 1Jo 1:9

that will by no means clear the guilty.The Hebrew {nakkeh lo yenakkeh,} has been rendered "Acquitting him who is not innocent." Nothing can more strongly express the goodness of God to frail mortals than this declaration, "which has been misunderstood and misinterpreted by all our translators."

23:7,21; Nu 14:18-23; De 32:35; Jos 24:19; Job 10:14; Ps 9:16,17

Ps 11:5,6; 58:10,11; 136:10,15; Isa 45:21; Mic 6:11; Na 1:2,3,6

Ro 2:4-9; 3:19-26; 9:22,23; Heb 12:29; Re 20:15; 21:8

visiting.

20:5,6

Leviticus 20:5

I will.

17:10

against his.

Ex 20:5; Jer 32:28-35,39

whoring.

17:7; Ps 106:39; Jer 3:2; Ho 2:5,13

Leviticus 26:29

This was literally fulfilled at the siege of Jerusalem. Josephus gives a dreadful detail respecting a woman named Mary, who, in the extremity of the famine, during the seige, killed her sucking child, roasted, and had eaten part of it, when discovered by the soldiers!

De 28:53-57; 2Ki 6:28,29; Jer 19:9; La 2:20; 4:10; Eze 5:10

Mt 24:19; Lu 23:29

Leviticus 26:39-40

shall pine.

De 28:65; 30:1; Ne 1:9; Ps 32:3,4; Jer 3:25; 29:12; La 4:9; Eze 4:17

Eze 6:9; 20:43; 24:23; 33:10; 36:31; Ho 5:15; Zec 10:9

and also.

Ex 20:5; 34:7; Nu 14:18; De 5:9; Jer 31:29; Eze 18:2,3,19

Mt 23:35,36; Ro 11:8-10

confess.

Nu 5:7; De 4:29-31; 30:1-3; Jos 7:19; 1Ki 8:33-36,47; Ne 9:2-5

Job 33:27,28; Ps 32:5; Pr 28:13; Jer 31:18-20; Eze 36:31

Da 9:3-20; Ho 5:15; 6:1,2; Lu 15:18,19; 1Jo 1:8-10

and that.

21,24,27,28

Numbers 14:18

long-suffering.

Ex 34:6,7; Ps 103:8; 145:8; Jon 4:2; Mic 7:18; Na 1:2,3; Ro 3:24-26

Ro 5:21; Eph 1:7,8

visiting.

Ex 20:5; 34:7; Jer 23:2

Numbers 14:33

shall wander in the wilderness. or, feed.This implies, that they should move from place to place in the deserts, as the Bedounin Arabs, who have no certain dwelling, but rove about seeking pasture for their flocks.

32:13; Jos 14:10; Ps 107:4,40

forty years.

33:38; De 1:3; 2:14

bear.

5:31; Jer 3:1,2; Eze 23:35,45-49; Ho 9:1

1 Samuel 15:2-3

I remember.

Jer 31:34; Ho 7:2; Am 8:7

Amalek.

Ex 17:8-16; Nu 24:20; De 25:17-19

Now go.The Amalekites, a people of Arabia Petræa, who inhabited a tract of country on the frontiers of Egypt and Canaan, had acted with great cruelty towards the Israelites on their coming out of Egypt, and God then purposed that Amalek, as a nation, should be blotted out from under heaven; but it had been spared till it had filled up the measure of its iniquities, and now this purpose is carried into effect by Saul, upwards of 400 years afterwards! Nothing could justify such an exterminating decree but the absolute authority of God; and this was given: all the reasons of it we do not know; but this we know well, the Judge of all the earth doeth right.

utterly destroy.

Le 27:28,29; Nu 24:20; De 13:15,16; 20:16-18; Jos 6:17-21

slay.

Ex 20:5; Nu 31:17; Isa 14:21,22

ox and sheep.

Ge 3:17,18; Ro 8:20-22

2 Samuel 21:1

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

2 Samuel 21:6

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
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