2 Samuel 21:3-14
wherewith Exod 32:30; Lev 1:4; 1Sam 2:25; Mic 6:6-7; Heb 9:22, Heb 10:4-12 bless 2Sam 20:19 We will etc. or, It is not silver nor gold that we have to do with Saul, or his house; neither pertains it to us to kill, etc. no silver. Ps 49:6-8; 1Pet 1:18-19 The man 2Sam 21:1; Esth 9:24-25; Matt 7:2 devised or, cut us off, Dan 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 2Sam 17:23, 2Sam 18:10; Gen 40:19, Gen 40:22; Num 25:4-5; Deut 21:22; Josh 8:29, Josh 10:26; Ezra 6:11; Esth 9:10, Esth 9:13-14; Matt 27:5 in 1Sam 10:26, 1Sam 11:4 whom the Lord did choose or, the chosen of the Lord, 1Sam 9:16-17, 1Sam 10:1, 1Sam 10:24; Acts 13:21 Mephibosheth 2Sam 4:4, 2Sam 9:10, 2Sam 16:4, 2Sam 19:25 because 1Sam 18:3, 1Sam 20:8, 1Sam 20:15, 1Sam 20:17, 1Sam 20:42, 1Sam 23:18 Rizpah 2Sam 3:7 and the five sons This Adriel did not marry Michal, Saul's younger daughter, but Merab, 1Sam 18:19; Michael being married to David, and afterwards to Phaltiel; though it is here said she bore (yaledah), not brought up, as falsely rendered, five sons to Adriel. Two of Dr. Kennicott's manuscripts, however, have Merab, instead of Michal; the Syriac and Arabic have Nadab; and the Chaldee renders the passage thus: "And the five sons of Merab which Michal the daughter of Saul brought up, which she brought forth to Adriel the son of Barzillai." Michal or, Michal's sister, 1Sam 18:19 brought up for Heb. bare to before the Lord 2Sam 21:6, 2Sam 6:17, 2Sam 6:21; Exod 20:5; Num 35:31-34; Deut 21:1-9; 1Sam 15:33; 2Kgs 24:3-4 in the beginning This happened in Judea about the vernal equinox, or 21st of March Ruth 1:22 Rizpah 2Sam 21:8, 2Sam 3:7 took sackcloth 1Kgs 21:27; Joel 1:18 from the 2Sam 21:9; Deut 21:13 until water Some suppose that this means a providential supply of rain, in order to remove the famine; but from the manner in which it is introduced, it seems to denote the autumnal rains, which commence about October. For five months did this broken-hearted woman watch by the bodies of her sons! Deut 11:14; 1Kgs 18:41-45; Jer 5:24-25, Jer 14:22; Hos 6:3; Joel 2:23; Zech 10:1 the birds Gen 40:19; Ezek 39:4 told David 2Sam 2:4; Ruth 2:11-12 the bones of Saul 2Sam 2:5-7; 1Sam 31:11-13 Bethshan Josh 17:11, Beth-shean, 1Sam 31:10 in Gilboa 2Sam 1:6, 2Sam 1:21; 1Sam 28:4, 1Sam 31:1; 1Chr 10:1, 1Chr 10:8 buried 2Sam 3:32, 2Sam 4:12 Zelah Josh 18:28; 1Sam 10:2, Zelzah God 2Sam 24:25; Exod 32:27-29; Num 25:13; Josh 7:26; 1Kgs 18:40-41; Jer 14:1-7; Joel 2:18-19; Amos 7:1-6; Jonah 1:15; Zech 6:8
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