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Text -- 2 Samuel 21:9 (NET)

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21:9 He turned them over to the Gibeonites, and they executed them on a hill before the Lord. The seven of them died together; they were put to death during harvest time– during the first days of the beginning of the barley harvest.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Gibeonite resident(s) of the town of Gibeon


Dictionary Themes and Topics: SAMUEL, BOOKS OF | SALVATION | SACRIFICE, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, 2 | Rizpah | PUNISHMENTS | PSALMS, BOOK OF | Mephibosheth | HEREDITY | HARVEST | Gibeon | Gibeah | GOD, 2 | GIBEONITES, THE | GIANTS | David | Barley | Armoni | Ajah | Adriel | AIAH | more
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TSK Synopsis , MHCC , Matthew Henry , Keil-Delitzsch , Constable , Guzik

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

JFB: 2Sa 21:9 - -- Deeming themselves not bound by the criminal law of Israel (Deu 21:22-23), their intention was to let the bodies hang until God, propitiated by this o...

Deeming themselves not bound by the criminal law of Israel (Deu 21:22-23), their intention was to let the bodies hang until God, propitiated by this offering, should send rain upon the land, for the want of it had occasioned the famine. It was a heathen practice to gibbet men with a view of appeasing the anger of the gods in seasons of famine, and the Gibeonites, who were a remnant of the Amorites (2Sa 21:2), though brought to the knowledge of the true God, were not, it seems, free from this superstition. God, in His providence, suffered the Gibeonites to ask and inflict so barbarous a retaliation, in order that the oppressed Gibeonites might obtain justice and some reparation of their wrongs, especially that the scandal brought on the name of the true religion by the violation of a solemn national compact might be wiped away from Israel, and that a memorable lesson should be given to respect treaties and oaths.

Clarke: 2Sa 21:9 - -- In the beginning of barley harvest - This happened in Judea about the vernal equinox, or the 21st of March.

In the beginning of barley harvest - This happened in Judea about the vernal equinox, or the 21st of March.

TSK: 2Sa 21:9 - -- before the Lord : 2Sa 21:6, 2Sa 6:17, 2Sa 6:21; Exo 20:5; Num 35:31-34; Deu 21:1-9; 1Sa 15:33; 2Ki 24:3, 2Ki 24:4 in the beginning : This happened in ...

before the Lord : 2Sa 21:6, 2Sa 6:17, 2Sa 6:21; Exo 20:5; Num 35:31-34; Deu 21:1-9; 1Sa 15:33; 2Ki 24:3, 2Ki 24:4

in the beginning : This happened in Judea about the vernal equinox, or 21st of March Rth 1:22

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: 2Sa 21:9 - -- In the first days - The barley harvest (about the middle or toward the end of April) was earlier than the wheat harvest Exo 9:31; Rth 1:22.

In the first days - The barley harvest (about the middle or toward the end of April) was earlier than the wheat harvest Exo 9:31; Rth 1:22.

Poole: 2Sa 21:9 - -- He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites Quest. How could David do this, when he had sworn that he would not cut off Saul’ s seed, ...

He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites

Quest. How could David do this, when he had sworn that he would not cut off Saul’ s seed, 1Sa 24:21,22 ?

Answ Because he had special warrant and direction from God about it, who, as all confess, can dispense with men’ s oaths and with his own laws when he sees fit. And that he did so here is manifest, because God was pleased with it, and removed the judgment upon it; whereas otherwise David had been guilty of the same sin with Saul, to wit, of the breach of his oath and covenant, for which this famine was inflicted.

See Poole "1Sa 24:22" .

In the hill or, in a hill , in or near Gibeah; in a conspicuous place, for their greater infamy, and for the caution and terror of others who should make any attempt upon the Gibeonites for the future.

Before the Lord as a sacrifice offered up to God to appease his wrath; or, unto the Lord, as was said, 2Sa 21:6 .

They fell i.e. died; for so the word to fall is oft used, as Exo 19:21 1Ch 21:14 Psa 91:7 Jer 39:18 Hos 5:5 ; or were executed. The barley harvest was before the wheat harvest.

Haydock: 2Sa 21:9 - -- Lord. The prophets had frequented this hill, 1 Kings viii. 4, 13. So the Gabaonites crucified these seven, before an ancient altar, as victims to a...

Lord. The prophets had frequented this hill, 1 Kings viii. 4, 13. So the Gabaonites crucified these seven, before an ancient altar, as victims to appease God's anger, (Calmet) for the treaty with them having been violated, (Haydock) particularly after they had embraced the true religion. (Salien) (Deuteronomy x. 19.) ---

Barley, about Easter. (Menochius)

Gill: 2Sa 21:9 - -- And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites,.... The two sons of Rizpah and the five sons of Merab, two sons of Saul and five grandsons: ...

And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites,.... The two sons of Rizpah and the five sons of Merab, two sons of Saul and five grandsons:

and they hanged them in the hill before the Lord; in the hill at Gibeah, that they might be seen by all that passed by, and serve to deter from such evils, which brought on them that punishment; gibbetings or crucifixions were commonly made on hills and mountains l: the phrase, "before the Lord", is either the same as "unto the Lord", 2Sa 21:6; to make atonement to the Lord, and in his sight; or it denotes that it was done publicly before the sun, and in the sight of it; for it cannot mean before the ark, the symbol of the divine Presence, for that was not there:

and they fell all seven together; they were hanged together, and died at one and the same time:

and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest; which began at the passover, the morrow after the first day of the feast, Lev 23:10; which was the sixteenth of Nisan, on which day, the Jews say m, these men were hanged, and which must be about the beginning of our April.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 2Sa 21:9 The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading בִּתְחִלַּת...

Geneva Bible: 2Sa 21:9 And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell [all] seven together, and were...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: 2Sa 21:1-22 - --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 S...

MHCC: 2Sa 21:1-9 - --Every affliction arises from sin, and should lead us to repent and humble ourselves before God; but some troubles especially show that they are sent t...

Matthew Henry: 2Sa 21:1-9 - -- Here 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...

Keil-Delitzsch: 2Sa 21:1-14 - -- Three Years' Famine. - A three years' famine in the land, the occasion of which, as Jehovah declared to the king, was Saul's crime with regard to th...

Constable: 2Sa 21:1--24:25 - --VII. SUMMARY ILLUSTRATIONS chs. 21--24 The last major section of the Book of Samuel (2 Sam. 21-24) consists of s...

Constable: 2Sa 21:1-14 - --A. Famine from Saul's Sin 21:1-14 In the first section (21:1-14), the writer reminds us that breaking co...

Constable: 2Sa 21:7-9 - --2. David's justice and mercy 21:7-9 David showed himself to be a true son of Yahweh by keeping h...

Guzik: 2Sa 21:1-22 - --2 Samuel 21 - Avenging the Gibeonites A. David avenges the Gibeonites 1. (1) A three-year famine prompts David to seek God. Now there was a famine...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: 2 Samuel (Book Introduction) THE FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF SAMUEL. The two were, by the ancient Jews, conjoined so as to make one book, and in that form could be called the Book o...

JFB: 2 Samuel (Outline) AN AMALEKITE BRINGS TIDINGS OF SAUL'S DEATH. (2Sa. 1:1-16) DAVID LAMENTS SAUL AND JONATHAN. (2Sa 1:17-27) DAVID, BY GOD'S DIRECTION, GOES UP TO HEBRO...

TSK: 2 Samuel 21 (Chapter Introduction) Overview 2Sa 21:1, The three years’ famine for the Gibeonites ceases, by hanging seven of Saul’s sons; 2Sa 21:10, Rizpah’s kindness unto the...

Poole: 2 Samuel 21 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 21 A three years’ famine, declared by God to be for the Gibeonites’ sake, ceaseth by their hanging seven of Saul’ s sons, 2...

MHCC: 2 Samuel (Book Introduction) This book is the history of the reign of king David. It relates his victories, the growth of the prosperity of Israel, and his reformation of the stat...

MHCC: 2 Samuel 21 (Chapter Introduction) (2Sa 21:1-9) The Gibeonites avenged. (2Sa 21:10-14) Rizpah's care for the bodies of Saul's descendants. (2Sa 21:15-22) Battles with the Philistines.

Matthew Henry: 2 Samuel (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Second Book of Samuel This book is the history of the reign of king David. We had in the foregoing ...

Matthew Henry: 2 Samuel 21 (Chapter Introduction) The 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 reb...

Constable: 2 Samuel (Book Introduction) Introduction Second Samuel continues the history begun in 1 Samuel. Please see my comments regarding 2 Samuel's title, d...

Constable: 2 Samuel (Outline) Outline (Continued from notes on 1 Samuel) V. David's triumphs chs. 1-8 ...

Constable: 2 Samuel 2 Samuel Bibliography Achtemeier, Paul J., and Elizabeth Achtemeier. The Old Testament Roots of Our Faith. Phil...

Haydock: 2 Samuel (Book Introduction) THE SECOND BOOK OF SAMUEL; otherwise called, THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS. INTRODUCTION. This Book contains the transactions of David till the end ...

Gill: 2 Samuel (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO 2 SAMUEL This book, in many copies of the Hebrew Bible, is carried on without any new title put unto it; the reason of it is, becau...

Gill: 2 Samuel 21 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO SECOND SAMUEL 21 A famine being in the land three years, the Lord was inquired of, to know the reason of it; and it being answered,...

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