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' - What fatisfattion do you expett or require for the Injuries {-:merly done to you ? þ That by your acknowledgment of ſatil- fa&ion received, the guilt and curſe may be removed from the Land and People of Cod,and by this means,as alſo by your Prayers, God may be reconciled, and may reſtore has Bleſſing of Plenty to us, which hitherto he hath denied us. _ ;
+ And the Gibeonires ſaid unto him, ||We will have no ſilver or gold of Saul, nor of his houſe, neither for us ſhalt thou kill any man in Ifrael i. And he faid, What you ſhall ſay &, that will I do for you.
; Except Sau!'s Family, as it here follows. k To wit, in any reaſon, and as far as God's Law will permit.
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] That we ſhould be either killed, or baniſhed from the Land of Iſrael ; which is as bad as death to us, becauſe here, and here only God is truly worshiped and enjoyed. Whereby it ſeems dt- vers of them were hearty Proſelites, and godly perſons ; and therefore God is more ſevere in puniſhing the Injuries done to them. Compare 1 Sam; 26: 19- :
6 Let ſeven men of his ſons be dzlivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD m in Gibeah of Saul » || Whom the LORD did chuſe »o. And the king ſaid, I will give them p.
m To vindicat his Honour, which was injured by Saul's viola- tion of the Cath and Covenant of God, and to appeaſe his wrath. n Saul's Country,1 Sam. 0: 26; and 11: 4. for their greater ſhame. o This is added to aggravate Saul's Offence, that it was commitred not only againſt them, bur alſo againſt the Lord who had choſen and advanced him,and therefore did little deſerve this from Saul's hand, to have his Laws broken,and his Name dishonoured by per- jury. p Having doubricſs confulred God in the matter ; who as he had before declared S2:!'s Bloody Houle to be the cauſes of this Judgmenr,ſo now commanded that Juſtice should be done upon it, and that the remaining Branches of it shouid be cut off; as ſuffi- ciently appears from hence, that God was ſatisfied and well pleaſed with the A&tion ; which he would nor have been, if David had done it without his command ; for then it had been a tinful a&ion of David's, and contrary to a double Law of God, Dent: 21: 23: and 24: 16. which none' but God himſelf could diſpenſe with.
7 But the king ſpared Mephiboſheth q the ſon of Jonathan .*., ghe ſon of Saul, becauſe of * che LORD's oath that was berween them, berween David and Jo- nathan the ſon of Saul.
g For the Gibeonites deſiring only ſuch a number, without deſfign= ing the perſons, it was at David's choice whom to ſpare. Or, he prevailed with the Gibeonires that they did not demand him ; and with the Lord, that he might nor be one of thoſe who were de- voted to deſtruftion. .*. This is expreſly added, to diſtinguish him from the other Mephiboſbeth. wv. 8. ;
8 kurt the King took the two ſons of Rizpah », the daughter of Ajah, whom ſhe bare unto Saul, ArmGni, and Mephiboſhech, and the hve ſons of || Michal / the daughter of Saul, whom ſhe | brought up : for Adriel the ſon of Barziilai the Meholathite «,
r Saul's Concubine, v. 11. and chap. 3- 7. ſ Or, of Mcichals Siſter to wit, Merob . for M: hal had no Chiidren, 2 Sam. 6: 23. NOr was
1 Sam: 25.44 and 2$4m, 3-15. and Merob her Siſter was married to this very Aadriel the Meholathite, 1 Sam. 18. 19. And it mult be remembied, that the Hebrew Language is very $hort, and full of Elipſes or detetts of words, which yet may be catily underſtood from the ſenſe. particularly,relative « ords are oft lacking,and to be ſup- plied, as Golzah is pur for Goliahs brother, here v. 19. and Unicle for Uncles ſon, Jer: 32 7, 12. Or, the Sons' of Merob are called the ſons of Michal, to wir, by adoption ; or, the near Kindred and next Heirs of Michal, and brought up by her. For upon that and ſuch like accounts the Title of Sn is oft given in Scripture,asGen. 48. 5. Excd 2. 10. Deus. 25. 5 6. Ruth. 1. 11, 12. and 4.17. Queff. But why then are not theſe called the ſons of Merob ? Anſ. Becauſe they vere better known by their Relation to Michal, who was Davias Wife, and, it may be alive at this time, and having no Children of her own, took theie and bred them up as her own ; when Merob was now a more obicure perſon, and pothibly dead many Years be- tore this. # For fo this Hebrew Verb,which primarily and proper- ly fignitics ro bear,is ſometimes uſed, as Gen. 50:23. Ruth 4: £7 bes caute the Education of Children is a kind of bearing of them, as requiring frequently no leſs care and pains than the bearing doth; whence 1t 15 that Nurſes are reputed as Mothers,and ſometimes go under that Name borh in Sacred and prophane Writers. Sce Ruth 4. 15,17. and compare Gen: 16. 2: and zo: 3- Num 11:12. Gal: 4:19. u Of Foei-meholah in the Tribe of Benjamin, Fudg. 7. 22. So he is here calicd by way of diftinttion from Barz://ai the Gileadite, chap 19. 31.
9. And he delivered them into the hand of the Gi- beorites x and they * hanged them in the hill y before the LORD z : and they fell «ll ſeven together, and were put ro death in the days of harveſt, in the firſt 4ays, in the beginning of barley harveſt 6.
x Que}. How could David do this, when he had Sworn that he would nor cut off Saul s Seed, 1 Sam. 24+ 21, 22. Anſw. B=cauſe he had ipecia] warrant and direttion from God about it, who, as all Co::rcls, Can diſpenſe with Mens Oaths, and with his own Laws when he ices tc. And that he did lo here, 1s manifeſt, becauſe God was picated with it, and removed rhe Judgment upon it, whereas otherwiſe David had been guilty of che fame Sin with $Sa%l.ro wir of the breach of his Oath and Covenant, for which this famine
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