2 Samuel 21:9

9 Ele os entregou aos gibeonitas, que os executaram no monte, perante o SENHOR. Os sete foram mortos ao mesmo tempo, nos primeiros dias da colheita de cevada.

2 Samuel 21:9 Meaning and Commentary

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 punishment; gibbetings or crucifixions were commonly made on hills and mountains {l}: the phrase, "before the Lord", is either the same as "unto the Lord", ( 2 Samuel 21:6 ) ; to make atonement to the Lord, and in his sight; or it denotes that it was done publicly before the sun, and in the sight of it; for it cannot mean before the ark, the symbol of the divine Presence, for that was not there:

and they fell [all] seven together;
they were hanged together, and died at one and the same time:

and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first [days], in
the beginning of barley harvest;
which began at the passover, the morrow after the first day of the feast, ( Leviticus 23:10 Leviticus 23:11 ) ; which was the sixteenth of Nisan, on which day, the Jews say ^F13, these men were hanged, and which must be about the beginning of our April.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 Vid. Lipsium de Cruce, l. 3. c. 13.
F13 Bemidbar Rabba, fol. 190. 1.

2 Samuel 21:9 In-Context

7 O rei poupou Mefibosete, filho de Jônatas e neto de Saul, por causa do juramento feito perante o SENHOR entre Davi e Jônatas, filho de Saul.

8 Mas o rei mandou buscar Armoni e Mefibosete, os dois filhos que Rispa, filha de Aiá, tinha dado a Saul. Com eles também os cinco filhos que Merabe, filha de Saul, tinha dado a Adriel, filho de Barzilai, de Meolá.

9 Ele os entregou aos gibeonitas, que os executaram no monte, perante o SENHOR. Os sete foram mortos ao mesmo tempo, nos primeiros dias da colheita de cevada.

10 Então Rispa, filha de Aiá, pegou um pano de saco e o estendeu para si sobre uma rocha. Desde o início da colheita até cair chuva do céu sobre os corpos, ela não deixou que as aves de rapina os tocassem de dia nem os animais selvagens à noite.

11 Quando Davi foi informado do que Rispa, filha de Aiá, concubina de Saul, havia feito,