2 Samuel 21:9 (BSB)
And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before the LORD. So all seven of them fell together; they were put to death in the first days of the harvest, at the beginning of the barley harvest.
From 2 Samuel 21. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on 2 Samuel 21:9
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on 2 Samuel 21:1-9: 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.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on 2 Samuel 21:9: And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites,.... The two sons of Rizpah and the five sons of Merab, two sons of Saul and five grandsons: and they hanged them in the hill before the Lord; in the hill at Gibeah, that they might be seen by all that passed by, and serve to deter from such evils, which brought on them that...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on 2 Samuel 21:9: they hanged them in the hill before the Lord--Deeming themselves not bound by the criminal law of Israel (Deu 21:22-23), their intention was to let the bodies hang until God, propitiated by this offering, should send rain upon the land, for the want of it had occasioned the famine.
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on 2 Samuel 21:9: And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell [all] seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first [days], in the beginning of barley harvest. (g) Which was in the month Abib or Nisan which contained part of March and part of April.