2 Samuel 21:15

The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint;

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

14They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father; and they performed all that the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer for the land.

16and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of bronze in weight, he being armed with a new sword, thought he would kill David.

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Cross References

Joshua 14:10“Now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old, today.

2 Samuel 5:22The Philistines came up yet again and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

2 Samuel 8:1After this, David struck the Philistines and subdued them; and David took the bridle of the mother city out of the hand of the Philistines.

Psalms 71:9Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.

Psalms 73:26My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Isaiah 40:28Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 21:11-15

The Death of Saul's Sons. ( b. c. 1021.) 10 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. 11 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done. 12 And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, which had… Read the whole commentary →

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