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2 Samuel 21

2 Samuel 21 — Overview

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, 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.

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2 Samuel 21 — Overview2 Samuel 21 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThe date of the events of this chapter is uncertain. I incline to think that they happened as they are here placed, after Absalom's and Sheba's rebellion, and towards the latter end of David's reign. That the…2 Samuel 21 — Overview2 Samuel 21 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleSECOND SAMUEL 21A famine being in the land three years, the Lord was inquired of, to know the reason of it; and it being answered, that it was on account of Saul's slaughter of the Gibeonites, they were summoned by…2 Samuel 21:1-92 Samuel 21:1-9 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleHere I. Were are told of the injury which Saul had, long before this, done to the Gibeonites, which we had no account of in the history of his reign, nor should we have heard of it here but that it came now to…2 Samuel 21:1-222 Samuel 21:1-22 · The Pulpit CommentaryEXPOSItION 2 Samuel 21:1 There was a famine in the days of David; Hebrew, and there was. There is an entire absence of any mark of time to show in what part of David's reign this famine took place. It does not even…2 Samuel 21:1-222 Samuel 21:1-22 · The Pulpit CommentaryVIII. THE SACREDNESS OF PROMISES MADE BY RELIGIOUS MEN. The promises made to the Gibeonites in the days of Joshua differed from all engagements entered into by other people, in that they were the promises of the chosen…2 Samuel 21:1-222 Samuel 21:1-22 · The Pulpit CommentaryIn the view of his followers, David was the lamp (Hebrew, naer) or glory of the nation, and the continuance of his life and reign was essential to its welfare. This is a striking testimony to their estimate of his…