Chapter 21

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a famine Gen 12:10, Gen 26:1, Gen 41:57, Gen 42:1, Gen 43:1; Lev 26:19-20, Lev 26:26; 1Kgs 17:1, 1Kgs 18:2; 2Kgs 6:25, 2Kgs 8:1; Jer 14:1-18

inquired Heb. sought the face, etc

of the Lord 2Sam 5:19, 2Sam 5:23; Num 27:21; 1Sam 23:2, 1Sam 23:4, 1Sam 23:11; Job 5:8-10, Job 10:2; Ps 50:15, Ps 91:15

It is Josh 7:1, Josh 7:11-12

Saul 1Sam 22:17-19


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now the Josh 9:3-21

the Amorites The Gibeonites were Hivites, not Amorites, as appears from Josh 6:19; but Amorites is a name often given to the Canaanites in general. Gen 15:16

in his zeal Deut 7:16; 1Sam 14:44, 1Sam 15:8-9; 2Kgs 10:16, 2Kgs 10:31; Luke 9:54-55; John 16:2; Rom 10:2; Gal 4:17


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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


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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


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The man 2Sam 21:1; Esth 9:24-25; Matt 7:2

devised or, cut us off, Dan 9:26


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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told David 2Sam 2:4; Ruth 2:11-12


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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


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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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the Philistines 2Sam 5:17, 2Sam 5:22; 1Chr 20:4

and David waxed faint Josh 14:10-11; Ps 71:9, Ps 71:18, Ps 73:26; Eccl 12:3; Isa 40:28-30; Jer 9:23-24; 1Pet 1:24-25


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of the sons Gen 6:4; Num 13:32-33; Deut 1:28, Deut 2:10, Deut 2:21, Deut 3:11, Deut 9:2; 1Sam 17:4-5

the giant or, Rapha, 2Sam 21:18, 2Sam 21:20 *marg. 2Sam 5:18; Gen 14:5

whose spear Heb. the staff, or, the head

thought 1Sam 17:45-51


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Abishai 2Sam 20:6-10

succoured 2Sam 22:19; Ps 46:1, Ps 144:10

Thou shalt 2Sam 18:3

quench 2Sam 14:7; 1Kgs 11:36, 1Kgs 15:4; Ps 132:17; John 1:8-9, John 5:35

light Heb. candle, or lamp


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Sibbechai 1Chr 11:29, 1Chr 20:4

Saph or, Sippai, 1Chr 20:4

the giant or, Rapha, 2Sam 21:16, 2Sam 21:20 *marg.


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Elhanan etc. Instead of ΰϊ βμιϊ ιςψι ΰψβιρ αιϊ δμηξι, of the text, we should certainly read, as in the parallel text, "and Elhanan the son of Jair, slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath." 1Chr 11:26

Jaareoregim or, Jair, 1Chr 20:5

Goliath 1Sam 17:4-11


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yet a battle 1Chr 20:6

the giant or, Rapha, 2Sam 21:16, 2Sam 21:18 *marg.


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defied or, reproached, 1Sam 17:10, 1Sam 17:25-26, 1Sam 17:36; 2Kgs 19:13

Jonathan 1Chr 27:32

Shimeah 1Sam 16:9, 1Sam 17:3, Shammah, 1Chr 2:13, Shimma


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four 1Chr 20:8

fell by Josh 14:12; Ps 60:12, Ps 108:13, Ps 118:15; Eccl 9:11; Jer 9:23; Rom 8:31, Rom 8:37


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