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Bible Commentaries
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments Sutcliffe's Commentary
David Mourns Saul and Jonathan's Death.Chapter 2
David Becomes King of Judah; Civil War Begins.Chapter 3
Abner Defects to David; Joab Kills Abner.Chapter 4
Ish-Bosheth Murdered; David Condemns the Killers.Chapter 5
David Becomes King Over All Israel.Chapter 6
Ark Brought to Jerusalem; Uzzah's Death.Chapter 7
God's Covenant With David; Promise of a Dynasty.Chapter 8
David's Military Victories and Administration.Chapter 9
David Shows Kindness to Mephibosheth.Chapter 10
David Defeats Ammonites and Arameans.Chapter 11
David's Sin With Bathsheba and Uriah's Death.Chapter 12
Nathan Rebukes David; Consequences Foretold.Chapter 13
Amnon's Sin Against Tamar; Absalom's Revenge.Chapter 14
Absalom's Return to Jerusalem Arranged by Joab.Chapter 15
Absalom's Conspiracy; David Flees Jerusalem.Chapter 16
David Insulted; Absalom Takes Over Jerusalem.Chapter 17
Ahithophel's Counsel and Hushai's Advice.Chapter 18
Absalom Defeated and Killed; David Mourns.Chapter 19
David Returns to Jerusalem; Political Unrest.Chapter 20
Sheba's Rebellion Suppressed by Joab.Chapter 21
Famine; Gibeonites Avenged; Philistine Battles.Chapter 22
David's Song of Deliverance and Thanksgiving.Chapter 23
David's Last Words; List of Mighty Men.Chapter 24
David's Census and the Resulting Plague.
- 2 Samuel
by Joseph Sutcliffe
THE SECOND BOOK OF SAMUEL.
This second part might have been called the book of David. Having in the preseding book considered his anointing, his singular courage, and marvellous preservation while a candidate for the throne; we here contemplate his wisdom, his valour, and a constellation of the highest virtues which can adorn human nature, or distinguish the sacred person of a King. The glory and happiness to which he raised his country, corresponded with his personal worth. He is indeed accused of cruelty to his enemies; but his punishments were legal retaliations, as the cutting off of the right thumb and the right toe of Adoni-bezek, who had most inhumanly mutilated seventy kings in that manner. Or if we consider the lamentable case of Uriah, he did all that a man or a prince could do to repair his fault. He published a penitentiary Psalm to his country; he married the woman, and made her son king over Israel. It would therefore be wise in the wicked to exceed him in the fruits of repentance, before they presumptuously take shelter under his character. From the virtues and the heroic actions, preserved in this ancient record, which comprises a period of about forty years, the discerning mind will find a vast source of pleasing and of painful instruction. A supplement to this book is given in the twenty eighth chapter of the first book of Chronicles.
