2 Samuel 21

Our friends bring us to the grave and leave us there, but God will not: God will go to the grave with us, and watch over our dead bodies; and take care of our ashes. Rizpah watched over the dead bodies of the sons of Saul, and guarded them against the ravenous fowls of the air (…

2. To shed the blood of another contrary to promise. Thus after the princes of Israel had sworn to the Gibeonites that they should live (Joshua 9:15), Saul slew them (2 Samuel 21:1). Here were two sins twisted together, breach of oath and murder.

For, when they came to the Jews craftily, as though they had been men of a far country, and had brought them to swear that they would not hurt them: though the host of Israel murmured at it, when they came to their cities; and though they might have reasoned thus, that they got…

Secondly, consider what sins and afflictions providence couples in respect of similitude; God often stamps the likeness of the sin, upon the judgement, Iudges 1. 7, 8. Thirdly, enquire at the mouth of God, by prayer and humiliation, as David did, 2 Sam. 21. and Job cap. 10:2 and…

In Egypt God blessed Joseph with a faithful servant (Genesis 43:23). David, who ventured his life to save his father's sheep (1 Samuel 17:34), had many servants that ventured their lives for him (2 Samuel 21:17; 23:15). To this purpose may be applied that proverb which Christ of…

Eighthly, there is a Scriptureless zeal, that is not bounded by the Word, but by some base and low end, such was Saul's zeal, when God bids him destroy Amalek, and spare neither man nor beast, then contrary to God's command he spared the best of the sheep and oxen, under pretens…

And if the actual sin of Adam be imputed unto us all, who derive our nature from him unto condemnation, though he sinned not in our Circumstances and relations, is it strange that the actual obedience of Christ should be imputed unto them who derive a Spiritual nature from him,…

So Canaan was cursed for the sin of his father (Genesis 9:25). Saul's seven sons were put to death for their father's bloody cruelty (2 Samuel 21:8–14). For the sin of David, seventy thousand of the people were destroyed by an angel, concerning whom he said, "It is I who have si…