旧约 - 撒母耳记下(2 Samuel)第21章

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.
And 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.)
Wherefore 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?
And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you.
And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them.
But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:
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.
And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:
And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.
And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.
Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint.
And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David.
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel.
And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant.
And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.
And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimeah the brother of David slew him.
These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
撒母耳记下第廿一章   第 21 章 

  撒下 21:1> 自然灾害全都是神对人的惩罚吗?古今的情况有何不同? 

  21:1 以色列的农业主要靠秋雨与春雨来保障收成。如果没有这些雨水,或者雨水来得不合时宜,或是农作物遭昆虫侵害,第二年的庄稼就会大大地欠收。那时的农夫完全靠赖自然,他们没有灌溉、施肥和除虫等设备。甚至雨量有所不同,或者有虫害,都能使农作物全毁。 

  撒下 21:1-14> 为什么扫罗的罪会祸及家人?那是怎样严重的罪? 

  21:1-14 圣经虽然没有记载扫罗报复基遍人的行动,但显然他有严重的罪行,使基遍人追讨他流血之罪。圣经没有说明为什么扫罗犯罪却要杀他的子孙。近东许多习俗(包括以色列的在内),把父亲犯罪看作整个家庭有罪,因为家庭是不可分割的整体。扫罗违背了以色列人向基遍人所起的誓(参书 9:16-20 )。背誓严重地违背神的律法(参民 30:1-2 )。大卫可能依照习俗行事,把家族看作一个整体,再不然就是扫罗的子孙曾协助扫罗,在杀害基遍人的罪上有分。 

  亚比筛 

  撒下 21:1-24:25> 21 章至 24 章的事件,发生在大卫王朝中的哪一时期? 

  21:1-24:25 以下四章是本书的附录。其中的事件并没有按照年代先后的次序列出,他们只记载大卫在位时,不同时期的事迹。 

  撒下 21:9-10> 利斯巴守候了尸体多久? 

  21:9-10 收割大麦是在阳历四月与五月之初。大麦与小麦相似,但不及小麦适于做饼。利斯巴在动手收割的时候(四月)直到雨季(十月)开始,整个时期都守着尸体。 

  撒下 21:16-18> 这些人为什么会被称为“伟人的儿子”? 

  21:16-18 作者称呼这些人为“伟人的儿子”,指他们是巨人。(参撒上 17:4-7 ,以及创 6:4 的注释)──《灵修版圣经注释》