2 Samuel 21:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquireda of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites. ”

2 Samuel 21:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There is no note of time whatever, nor any clue as to what part of David’s reign the events of this chapter ought to be assigned. Enquired of the Lord - Hebrew “sought the face of the Lord,” qu...
2 Samuel 21:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, [It is] for Saul, and for [his] bloody house, because he slew the (a)...
2 Samuel 21:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 21-24. These Chapter s form an appendix of material from various sources. One of the editors, perhaps the one to whom the book substantially owes its present form, seems to have met with d...
2 Samuel 21:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

famine . One of the thirteen mentioned. See note on Genesis 12:10 . year after year . the year after that year: i.e. 932. David being now fifty-eight. the LORD . Hebrew. Jehovah . App-4.
2 Samuel 21:1 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 324 FAMINE A PUNISHMENT FOR SIN 2 Samuel 21:1 . Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, It is...
2 Samuel 21:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gib...
2 Samuel 21:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Three years, year after year— Houbigant reads it, for three successive years. The crime for which the three years of famine were sent, was the murder of many of the Gibeonites by Saul, with a det...
2 Samuel 21:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gib...
2 Samuel 21:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Famine and some Exploits against the Philistines 1. It is for Saul, and for his bloody house ] rather, 'upon Saul and his house rests bloodshed.' The Gibeonites ] The lives of the Gibe...
2 Samuel 21:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

XXI. (1) Then there was. — Read, and there was, there being no indication of time in the original. It is plain from 2 Samuel 21:7 that the events here narrated occurred after David had come...
2 Samuel 21:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XXVIII THE FAMINE. 2 Samuel 21:1-14 . WE now enter on the concluding part of the reign of David. Some of the matters in which he was most occupied during this period are recorded only...
2 Samuel 21:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Devoted Mother 2 Samuel 21:1-11 The time of this famine cannot be fixed with certainty. Probably it took place before Absalom's rebellion. The reason for it was found in Saul's slaughter of t...
2 Samuel 21:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

As at the close of the Book of Judges, so here, several matters are dealt with not in chronological order, or related, but as illustrating the times which have been under consideration. In many sens...
2 Samuel 21:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

CONTENTS More troubles of David are related in this Chapter. Here are mentioned three years famine in Israel. To implore GOD'S mercy, a sacrifice is made, at the request of the Gibeonites, of seven...
2 Samuel 21:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year ,.... That is, three years running, one after another; some think this, though here related, was before the rebellions of Ab...
2 Samuel 21:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, [It is] for Saul, and for [his] bloody house, because he slew the Gi...
2 Samuel 21:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Then there was a famine , &c. The things related here, and chap. 24., are, by the best interpreters, conceived to have been done long before Absalom's rebellion. And this opinion is not without...
2 Samuel 21:1 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

We cannot say with certainty when the events of this chapter occurred, for they are not necessarily chronological, but spoken of as having taken place "in the days of David." God sent a famine in the...
2 Samuel 21:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

A Famine in Israel; The Gibeonites Avenged. B. C. 1021. 1 Then there was a famine in the...
2 Samuel 21:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

SAMUEL 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 Samuel 21:1-9 . Rizpah preserveth the dead bodies, 2 Sam...
2 Samuel 21:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 2 Samuel 21:1 . “Then.” Rather, And , consequently there is nothing to indicate the period when the events here recorded took place, and many commentators consid...
2 Samuel 21:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Samuel 21:1 . There was a famine three years, and in succession. Men, under the aspects of dying, like the seamen in Jonah's case, are led to the profoundest researches of conscience. 2 Samuel...
2 Samuel 21:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

Then there was a famine in the days of David three years. The quickening of David’s conscience by Rizpah’s example Some years since it was found that many returned emigrants were ending their d...
2 Samuel 21:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSItION 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...
2 Samuel 21:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year, three successive years, a fact which made the visitation seem a special punishment; and David enquired of the Lord, he sou...
2 Samuel 21:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 17:1 ; 1 Kings 18:2 ; 1 Samuel 22:17-19 ; 1 Samuel 23:11 ; 1 Samuel 23:2 ; 1 Samuel 23:4 ; 2 Kings 6:25 ; 2 Kings 8:1 ; 2 Samuel 5:19 ; 2 Samuel 5:23 ; Genesis 12:10 ; Genesis 26:...
2 Samuel 21:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Then — The things related here and 2 Samuel 24:1-25 , are by the best interpreters conceived to have been done long before Absalom's rebellion. And this opinion is not without sufficient grounds:...

2 Samuel 21:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Samuel 21:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

2 Samuel 21:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 21:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

2 Samuel 21:1 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

2 Samuel 21:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Samuel 21:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

2 Samuel 21:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Samuel 21:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 21:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Samuel 21:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Samuel 21:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Samuel 21:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Samuel 21:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Samuel 21:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Samuel 21:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Samuel 21:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Samuel 21:1 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 21:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Samuel 21:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Samuel 21:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Samuel 21:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Samuel 21:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Samuel 21:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Samuel 21:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Samuel 21:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 21:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes