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2 Samuel 21:15
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the Philistines: 2 Samuel 5:17, 2 Samuel 5:22, 1 Chronicles 20:4
and David waxed faint: Joshua 14:10, Joshua 14:11, Psalms 71:9, Psalms 71:18, Psalms 73:26, Ecclesiastes 12:3, Isaiah 40:28-30, Jeremiah 9:23, Jeremiah 9:24, 1 Peter 1:24, 1 Peter 1:25
Reciprocal: Genesis 6:4 - giants 2 Samuel 8:1 - And after Psalms 9:5 - rebuked Psalms 18:38 - General Psalms 60:8 - triumph Psalms 108:9 - over Philistia
Cross-References
Now the LORD was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised.
Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised.
Now Yahweh visited Sarah as He had said, and Yahweh did for Sarah as He had promised.
Then the LORD took note of Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah as He had promised.
The Lord visited Sara as he had promised, and did vnto her accordyng as he had spoke.
The Lord came back to visit Sarah as he said he would, and he kept his promise to her.
The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had promised.
Forsothe God visitide Sare, as he bihiyte, and fillide tho thingis, that he spak.
And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did vnto Sarah as he had spoken.
And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel,.... Besides what is before recorded in this and the preceding book; being animated to it partly by the number of giants among them, and partly by the decline of David's life, and it may be chiefly by the insurrections and rebellions in Israel; though some think that these battles were not after the rebellions of Absalom and Sheba, and the affair of the Gibeonites, though here recorded; but before, and quickly after the war with the Ammonites, next to which they are placed in 1 Chronicles 20:1; but they seem to be placed here in their proper order:
and David went down, and his servants with him; to the borders of the Philistines, perceiving they were preparing to make war against him:
and fought against the Philistines; engaged in a battle with them:
and David waxed faint; in the battle, not able to bear the fatigues of war, and wield his armour as he had used, being in the decline of life; after he had been engaged a while, his spirits began to fail, not through fear, but through feebleness; but, according to Josephus, it was through weariness in pursuing the enemy put to flight, which the following person perceived, and turned upon him y.
y Antiqu. l. 7. c. 12. sect. 1.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
This, like the preceding paragraph 2 Samuel 21:1-14, is manifestly a detached and unconnected extract. It is probably taken from some history of David’s wars, apparently the same as furnished the materials for 2 Samuel 5:0; 2 Samuel 8:0; 2 Samuel 23:8-39. There is no direct clue to the time when the events here related took place, but it was probably quite in the early part of David’s reign, while he was still young and active, after the war described in 2 Samuel 5:0. The Book of Chronicles places these Philistine battles immediately after the taking of Rabbah of the Ammonites 1 Chronicles 20:4-8, but omits David’s adventure 2 Samuel 21:15-17.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 2 Samuel 21:15. Moreover the Philistines had yet war — There is no mention of this war in the parallel place, 1 Chronicles 20:4, &c.
David waxed faint. — This circumstance is nowhere else mentioned.