2 Samuel 21:1-20
famine <07458> [A.M. 2986. B.C. 1018. An. Ex. Ex. Is. 473. a famine.]
inquired <01245> [enquired. Heb. sought the face, etc. of the Lord.]
Saul <07586> [It is.]
Saul <07586> [Saul.]
Gibeonites ........ Gibeonites <01393> [now the.]
Amorites <0567> [the Amorites.]
The Gibeonites were Hivites, not Amorites, as appears from Jos 6:19; but Amorites is a name often given to the Canaanites in general.
zeal <07065> [in his zeal.]
amends <03722> [wherewith.]
bless <01288> [bless.]
silver <03701> [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.]
man <0376> [The man.]
schemed <01819> [devised. or, cut us off.]
seven <07651> [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.
execute <03363> [hang.]
Gibeah <01390> [in.]
Lord ......... Lord's chosen one <03068 0972> [whom the Lord did choose. or, the chosen of the Lord.]
Mephibosheth <04648> [Mephibosheth.]
Lord's <03068> [because.]
Rizpah <07532> [Rizpah.]
sons .............. five sons ............. son <01121 02568> [and the five sons.]
This Adriel did not marry Michal, Saul's younger daughter, but Merab, 1 Sa 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 MSS., 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."
Merab <04324> [Michal. or, Michal's sister.]
born ............... born ... Adriel <03205 05741> [brought up for. Heb. bare to.]
before ... Lord <06440 03068> [before the Lord.]
beginning <08462> [in the beginning.]
This happened in Judea about the vernal equinox, or 21st of March.
Rizpah <07532> [Rizpah.]
took sackcloth <03947 08242> [took sackcloth.]
beginning <08462> [from the.]
rain <04325> [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!
birds <05775> [the birds.]
David ... told <01732 05046> [told David.]
bones ... Saul ..................................... Saul <06106 07586> [the bones of Saul.]
Beth Shan <01052> [Beth-shan.]
[Beth-shean.]
Gilboa <01533> [in Gilboa.]
buried <06912> [buried.]
Zela <06762> [Zelah.]
[Zelzah. God.]
Philistines .............. Philistines <06430> [the Philistines.]
David ........... David ... exhausted <01732 05774> [and David waxed faint.]
descendants <03211> [of the sons.]
Rapha <07497> [the giant. or, Rapha.]
spear <07013> [whose spear. Heb. the staff, or, the head. thought.]
Abishai <052> [Abishai.]
<05826> [succoured.]
out <03318> [Thou shalt.]
extinguish <03518> [quench.]
lamp <05216> [light. Heb. candle, or lamp.]
Sibbekai <05444> [Sibbechai.]
Saph <05593> [Saph. or, Sippai.]
Rapha <07497> [the giant. or, Rapha.]
Elhanan <0445> [Elhanan, etc.]
Instead of [y`ry 'rgym byt hlchmy 't glyt,] of the text, we should certainly read, as in the parallel text, "and Elhanan the son of Jair, slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath."
Jair <03296> [Jaare-oregim. or, Jair.]
Goliath <01555> [Goliath.]
battle <04421> [yet a battle.]
Rapha <07497> [the giant. or, Rapha.]
