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2 Samuel - Keil and Delitzsch Contents Introduction a Grace Notes course Second Samuel From Commentary on the Old Testament C. F. Keil and F. Delitzsch adapted for Grace Notes training by Warren Doud Grace Notes Web Site: http://www.gracenotes.info E-mail: [email protected] 2 Samuel - Keil and Delitzsch Contents Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 4 2 Samuel 1 ..................................................................................................................................................... 4 2 Samuel 2 ..................................................................................................................................................... 9 2 Samuel 3 ................................................................................................................................................... 13 2 Samuel 4 ................................................................................................................................................... 18 2 Samuel 5 ................................................................................................................................................... 20 2 Samuel 6 ................................................................................................................................................... 26 2 Samuel 7 ................................................................................................................................................... 33 2 Samuel 8 ................................................................................................................................................... 42 2 Samuel 9 ................................................................................................................................................... 49 2 Samuel 10 ................................................................................................................................................. 50 2 Samuel 11 ................................................................................................................................................. 55 2 Samuel 12 ................................................................................................................................................. 59 2 Samuel 13 ................................................................................................................................................. 64 2 Samuel 14 ................................................................................................................................................. 69 2 Samuel 15 ................................................................................................................................................. 74 2 Samuel 16 ................................................................................................................................................. 80 2 Samuel 17 ................................................................................................................................................. 83 2 Samuel 18 ................................................................................................................................................. 87 2 Samuel 19 ................................................................................................................................................. 91 2 Samuel 20 ................................................................................................................................................. 96 2 Samuel 21 ................................................................................................................................................. 99 2 Samuel 22 ............................................................................................................................................... 105 2 Samuel 23 ............................................................................................................................................... 115 2 Samuel 24 ............................................................................................................................................... 124 The Authors Carl Friedrich Keil (26 February 1807 – 5 May 1888) was a conservative German Lutheran Old Testament commentator. He was born at Lauterbach near Oelsnitz, Kingdom of Saxony, and died at Rätz, Saxony. Franz Delitzsch (Leipzig, February 23, 1813 – Leipzig, March 4, 1890) was a German Lutheran theologian and Hebraist. Born in Leipzig, he held the professorship of theology at the University of Rostock from 1846 to 1850, at the University of Erlangen until 1867, and after that at the University of Leipzig until his death. Delitzsch wrote many commentaries on books of the Bible, Jewish antiquities, biblical psychology, a history of Jewish poetry, and Christian apologetics. Grace Notes Grace Notes is a Bible study ministry which began in 1994 using the Internet to distribute lessons and articles to people who are interested in God's Word. Thousands of Christians, in more than 110 countries around the world, have received Grace Notes lessons on the Internet, by E-mail and the World Wide Web. All courses and materials are distributed free of charge, and the work is supported by believers who want to see the ministry continue and grow. Grace Notes studies are also distributed on diskette and CD-ROM in order to reach those who do not have Internet access. Verse-by-verse (expositional) courses are available in 50 books of the Bible. Some of the courses include word studies (categorical doctrine) or historical articles (isagogics) that are relevant to the passages being discussed. Other courses offered are Bible character studies, comprehensive studies of the Christian Life and Basics of the Christian Life, an extensive series on the Person and Word of Jesus Christ, and a thorough study of the Attributes of God. You are invited to write to the address below, or write by e-mail, to inquire about Grace Notes materials. Warren Doud, Director 1705 Aggie Lane, Austin, Texas 78757 E-Mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.gracenotes.info 2 SAMUEL Page 4 By C. F. Keil and F. Delitzsch a Grace Notes study 2 SAMUEL time longer, but with the former steadily advancing and the latter declining, until at Introduction length Abner quarrelled with Ishbosheth, and This book contains the history of David’s reign, persuaded the tribes that had hitherto adhered arranged according to its leading features: viz., to him to acknowledge David as king over all (1) the commencement of his reign as king of Israel. After the negotiations with David for Judah at Hebron, whereas the other tribes of effecting this, he was assassinated by Joab on Israel adhered to the house of Saul (2 Samuel his return from Hebron,—an act at which David 1–4); (2) his promotion to be king over all not only expressed his abhorrence by a solemn Israel, and the victorious extension of his sway mourning for Abner, but declared it still more (2 Samuel 5–9); (3) the decline of his power in openly by cursing Joab’s crime (2 Samuel 3). consequence of his adultery (2 Samuel 10–20); Shortly afterwards, Ishbosheth was (4) the close of his reign (2 Samuel 21–24). assassinated in his own house by two Parallels and supplements to this history, in Benjaminites; but this murder was also which the reign of David is described chiefly in avenged by David, who ordered the murderers its connection with the development of the to be put to death, and the head of Ishbosheth, kingdom of God under the Old Testament, are that had been delivered up to him, to be buried given in 2 Samuel 11–28 of the first book of in Abner’s tomb (2 Samuel 4). Thus the civil Chronicles, where we have an elaborate war and the threatened split in the kingdom description of the things done by David, both were brought to an end, though without any for the elevation and organization of the public complicity on the part of David, but rather worship of God, and also for the consolidation against his will, viz., through the death of Abner, and establishment of the whole kingdom, and the author of the split, and of Ishbosheth, whom the general administration of government. he had placed upon the throne, both of whom fell by treacherous hands, and received the David King Over Judah; And Ishbosheth King reward of their rebellion against the ordinance Over Israel. of God. David himself, in his long school of When David received the tidings at Ziklag of the affliction under Saul, had learned to put all his defeat of Israel and the death of Saul, he hope in the Lord his God; and therefore, when mourned deeply and sincerely for the fallen Saul was dead, he took no steps to grasp by king and his noble son Jonathan (2 Samuel 1). force the kingdom which God had promised He then returned by the permission of God into him, or to remove his rival out of the way by the land of Judah, namely to Hebron, and was crime. anointed king of Judah by the elders of that 2 Samuel 1 tribe; whereas Abner, the cousin and chief general of Saul, took Ishbosheth, the only David’s Conduct on Hearing of Saul’s Death. His remaining son of the fallen monarch, and made Elegy Upon Saul and Jonathan.—Ch. 1. him king over the other tribes of Israel at 2 Samuel 1. David received the intelligence of Mahanaim (2 Samuel 2:1–11). This occasioned the defeat of Israel and the death of Saul in the a civil war. Abner marched to Gibeon against
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