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2 Samuel 21:1 KJV
2 Samuel · chapter 21 · verse 1
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 Gibeonites.2 Samuel 21:1 · King James Version
2 Samuel 21:1 in context
1Then 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 Gibeonites.
2And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
3Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- enquiredbâqashto search outH1245 →
- answeredʼâmarto sayH559 →
- faminerâʻâbhungerH7458 →
- DavidDâvidDavid, the youngest son of JesseH1732 →
- threeshâlôwshthreeH7969 →
- yearsshâneha yearH8141 →
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Here I. Were are told of the injury which Saul had, long before this, done to the Gibeonites, which we had no account of in the history of his reign, nor should we have heard of it here but that it came now to be reckoned for.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-9