2 Samuel 21:1

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.

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¹ 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.

Related Commentaries of 2 Samuel 21:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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