2 Samuel 21:22 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants. ”

2 Samuel 21:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Four - Not necessarily meaning that they were brothers, but that they were all of the race of the Giant, all Rephaim. The word “four” is omitted in the parallel passage, only the three last being...
2 Samuel 21:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

David's Heroes (first section). Cf. above. (J). These verses are probably from the same source as 2 Samuel 23:8 ff., and the source is no doubt ancient. The events in 2 Samuel 21:15 ff. and...
2 Samuel 21:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants. Commentary on the Bible, by Adam Clarke [1831].
2 Samuel 21:22 - 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 21:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XXIX. LAST BATTLES AND THE MIGHTY MEN. 2 Samuel 21:15-22 ; 2 Samuel 23:8-39 . IN entering on the consideration of these two portions of the history of David, we must first observe tha...
2 Samuel 21:22 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

More Giants Slain 2 Samuel 21:12-22 It was in unsettled weather that Rizpah began her watch; but no hardship daunted her, no cost was too great. She shielded the dear remains from bird and beas...
2 Samuel 21:22 - 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 21:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(12) And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them...
2 Samuel 21:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

These four were born to the giant in Gath ,.... Not to Goliath, for one of them was his brother, but to some giant or another of that place, for which it was famous; they were all of them of the rac...
2 Samuel 21:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants. Ver. 22. And fell by the hand of David. ] Because by the hand of his servants and soldier...
2 Samuel 21:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

There was yet a battle in Gath That is, in the territory of that city; which circumstance intimates, that this, and consequently the other battles here described, were fought before David had taken...
2 Samuel 21:22 - 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 21:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Giants Subdued. B. C. 1020. 15 Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israe...
2 Samuel 21:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Fell by the hand of David; either because they were slain by his conduct, and counsel, or concurrence; for he contributed by his hand to the death of one of them, whilst maintaining a fight with hi...
2 Samuel 21:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 2 Samuel 21:15 . “Moreover,” or, and . “Yet,” rather, again . “This refers generally to earlier wars with the Philistines, and has probably been taken without...
2 Samuel 21:22 - 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 21:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant. On doing valiantly If his master bids him perform exploits too hard for him, he draws upon the resources of omnipotence,...
2 Samuel 21:22 - 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 21:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Exploits During the Philistine Wars
2 Samuel 21:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 20:8 ; Ecclesiastes 9:11 ; Jeremiah 9:23 ; Joshua 14:12 ; Psalms 108:13 ; Psalms 118:15 ; Psalms 60:12 ; Romans 8:31 ; Romans 8:37
2 Samuel 21:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Born to the giant in Gath — These giants were probably the remains of the sons of Anak, who, tho' long feared, fell at last.

2 Samuel 21:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Samuel 21:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 21:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Samuel 21:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 21:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Samuel 21:22 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Samuel 21:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Samuel 21:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Samuel 21:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Samuel 21:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Samuel 21:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Samuel 21:22 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 21:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Samuel 21:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Samuel 21:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Samuel 21:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Samuel 21:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Samuel 21:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Samuel 21:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Samuel 21:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 21:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes