2 Samuel 21:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devisedb against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel, ”

2 Samuel 21:5 - 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 21:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

coasts . borders.
2 Samuel 21:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
2 Samuel 21:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for y...
2 Samuel 21:5 - 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 21:5 - 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 21:5 - 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 21:5 - 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 21:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(4) And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for y...
2 Samuel 21:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they answered the king ,.... Declaring expressly what they would have done: the man that consumed us; meaning Saul, who lessened their number by cruel oppressions of some, and by taking away the...
2 Samuel 21:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us [that] we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel, Ver. 5. The man that consumed us and...
2 Samuel 21:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

They answered, The man that consumed us , &c. They desired no reparation of private damages, or revenge of injuries; all they required was that a public sacrifice should be made to justice, and...
2 Samuel 21:5 - 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 21:5 - 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 21:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

That we should be either killed, or banished from the land of Israel; which is as bad as death to us, because here, and here only, God is truly worshipped and enjoyed. Whereby it seems divers of them...
2 Samuel 21:5 - 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 21:5 - 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 21:5 - 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 21:5 - 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 21:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Difficulty with the Gibeonites Adjusted
2 Samuel 21:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 21:1 ; Daniel 9:26 ; Esther 9:24 ; Esther 9:25 ; Matthew 7:2

2 Samuel 21:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 21:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

2 Samuel 21:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Samuel 21:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Samuel 21:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 21:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Samuel 21:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Samuel 21:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Samuel 21:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Samuel 21:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Samuel 21:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Samuel 21:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Samuel 21:5 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 21:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Samuel 21:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Samuel 21:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Samuel 21:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Samuel 21:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Samuel 21:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Samuel 21:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Samuel 21:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge