Therefore, the world is full of sintheir own sin. Ezekiel 18:19-20 Yet you say, 'Why should the son not bear the guilt of the father?' I think he was very low. (4:10). We do know the Gibeonites were cutters of wood and drawers of water for the altar of God the tabernacle was at Gibeon. And we bear the guilt with them for that. The problem was that God had not told Saul to do this, God had told Joshua to do that. As mentioned earlier, there was the rebellion of Absalom. Therefore, there was a different system of justice than what the Gentiles were used to. King David, for example, made huge errors in judgment and committed colossal sins. So David asked the Lord for help, and the Lord answered, Saul and his family are guilty of murder, because he had the Gibeonites killed. David asked the Gibeonites what punishment would satisfy them and atone for (cover) Sauls sin of murder. Other Translations for 2 Samuel 21:1 Discussion for 2 Samuel 21 View All Back in I Samuel 15, Saul was told by God through Samuel to go up against the Amalekites, and to destroy everything in sight, do not spare anything; exterminate them. II Samuel 21:1-2 Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. Notice that I Kings begins not many chapters after this. Berean Literal Bible Acts 13:21. According to a May 2007 George Barna Poll, 63% of Americans, mostly professing Christians, believe that Jesus sinned during His physical life! The breach of contract was serious enough that God sent the famine in response. 2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the This has become known as the "eye for an eye principle." Joshua kept his word to the Gibeonites even when it was inconvenient. Because of their peace treaty and their oath with the Gibeonites, which included these people. He just let them walk all over him. Think about this for a moment. In verse 7 we see the only thing in the entire situation that was any good at all. Such a shame to destroy it all! WebWhen God called Saul to be king, Israel was on the verge of collapse. A lot can happen in two years. Why are they where they were? By this time, having fought all his life since he was a teenagerup against Goliath when he was eighteen or soand here he was approaching 70 years old, and he was tired. He asked me, "How does this incident square with what God says in Ezekiel 18:19-20?". THE STORY OF JOSEPH - The Bible does not provide us the details of this killing. 0 responses Later, during a wasting famine, David, attempting a political rather than a righteous solution, yielded to the Gibeonites' request that descendants of Saul be hanged to avenge the slaughter. Guilt for sin is not hereditary. God only let the rain cycle start again. After that, God heeded the prayer of the land. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself. In some ways, the story centers around covenants or treaties, one made between Israel and the Gibeonites in Joshua 9, another between Jonathan and David in 1 Sam. When this righteous ruler turned to God, the Lord showed him that arrogant error of his predecessor. Before she married David, Abigail had been the wife of _____. It is very clear, and very simplejust two little verses. Web2 Samuel 21:1 Context. So let seven of Sauls sons or grandsons be handed over to us, and we will execute them before the Lord at Gibeon, on the mountain of the Lord.. The prophet Zechariah asks a question that is forever pertinent to all spiritual considerations and decisions: "For who hath despised the day of small things?" "There's something rotten in Denmark," as the saying goes. If you read 2Samuel 21 carefully, it seems possible that Saul and his house may have been trying to get the Gibeonites territory. WebThe Gibeonites Hang Saul's Descendants 21 While David was king, there were three years in a row when the nation of Israel could not grow enough food. Whatever the case, it is very plain to me that he did not pay enough attention to this matter of the famine and drought, and the Gibeonites. And we are supposed to be ready. He could have done whatever he wanted. Now, if they participated in his sin, then of course, they will bear the guilt for their participation in that sin. Why were two of Saul's sons and five of Saul's grandsons killed for a crime they didn't commit? I dont think it was a matter of God allowing the Gibeonites to put to death Sauls sons. II Samuel 21:3-6 Therefore David said to the Gibeonites, "What shall I do for you? And it would have been done quickly and easily. All they wanted, they said, was a peace treaty with Israel; then they would return to their distant home. Evidently, he thought that he could win back his kingdom if he zealously did God's will. Your threshing shall last till the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last till the time of sowing; you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. WebThe biblical writer confirms this charge by stating that Saul tried to annihilate [ nkah, to inflict a dead blow] them (2 Sam. The verb is used in this sense with respect to Joshua's action toward the Gibeonites in Joshua 9:27, where cultic servitude is involved ("for the altar of the Lord"). So they fell, all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest. What we do inherit of their sin is consequences. Now it came to pass, when Adonizedec king of But it appears at least 40, maybe 50 years in the past. Numbers 35:29-33 And these things shall be a statute of judgment to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings. Throughout the Scriptures warnings of spiritual dangers are signaled by the flash cards of attention getting words like: "Take heed" or "Consider". God has torn the kingdom from you. There was a great deal of turmoil in Israel leading up to this time. If the Gibeonites brought guile and deceit into the land; it was Saul who set the example for deep and devastating Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death [he cannot buy his way out]. He keeps his word even to his own disadvantage and does not change it [for his own benefit] (Psalm 15:1, 4; AMP). And with what shall I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of the LORD?" And she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night. These conflicting views on Saul would continue long past the biblical era and into modern times. He apparently killed It does not matter. But it does not say so here in so many words. And it very seriously affected his judgment in this matter. And after that God heeded the prayer for the land. It said earlier that they wanted them to be hung before the Lord in Gibeah of Saul. Israel plagued by allowing the deception Their deceit, Israel's lack of vigilance and Saul's deep delusion caused God's people centuries of grief and embarrassment. You didn't do it. There was not a cloud in sight and you are the king. So they thought, "Hmm. He made huge errors in judgment, both personally and in a larger sense. Then Ishbi-Benob, who was one of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose bronze spear was three hundred shekels, who was bearing a new sword, thought he could kill David. Saul was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for forty -two years over Israel. by LeRoy Gardenier Notice the timing and the manner of the execution. Then we have the explanations of which we just went over. DECEPTION AND COST Who was the father of Mephibosheth? There were no cell phones. This indicates that God was not pleased, whatsoever, with how this situation was resolved by David. I think he was looking at Adonijah and Solomon, and seeing the positioning for the throne, and he just wanted to throw up his handsflee like some bird (Psalm 139). They engaged in battle, and Israel won, but the people and king Saul said, "Look at all this nice livestock! Something is wrong, David. After that, they had their problems at Ai, and figured out that Achan was responsible for that. There is less bloodshed, and there will not be much opportunity like in Gentile nations for these blood feuds to last for years and generations. It was as if David earlier said, "Let's just get this out of the way. That is how we overcome the dearth of the truth and the dearth of righteousness in our day. Completely ignoring God's explicit command to spare the Gibeonites, Saul decreed it was time to remove them completely by exterminating them. But certainly, David was. We have all these things coming at the end time, which is very short. So this zeal may not have carried good connotations (cf John 2:17) it was not zeal for God but zeal for man, an ongoing problem with Saul. Jerusalem is almost directly west a few miles, but it is quite high from the Jordan to the Jerusalem. Up and down your family tree, sin does not go. David was annonted by Sammuel Apr 10, 1035. He says to watchbe aware, be awake, be vigilant; know what your spiritual state is. Lets read about David avenging the Gibeonites in 2 Samuel 21:1-14: 1 Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. God spared them as a people, but His nation condemned them to endless servitude. II Samuel 21:7 But the king spared Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the LORD's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. I am just going to start with the backdrop to the incident. If, in the event the Israelis ever came their way, they would be servants to the people of Israel. There are references to the Lord, but they are not references in a spiritual sense. There were big problems, and one of them was the consequences and effects of Saul and his bloodthirsty house. See? And you shall take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the priest [no way of getting out of that either; he has to serve his whole time]. Now if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as He swore to your fathers, and gives you the land which He promised to give to your fathers, and if you keep all these commandments and do them, which I command you today, to love the LORD your God and to walk always in His ways, then you shall add three more cities for yourself besides these three, lest innocent blood be shed in the midst of your land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and thus guilt of bloodshed be upon you. This is pretty clear. Other people do not carry the guilt for that person's sin. What have they done? Saul, after having disqualified himself from being king, sought to ingratiate himself with God by killing Canaanites, including an unrecorded massacre of Gibeonites. The Gibeonites merely asked for a mutual help pact that would guarantee not only mercy and aid from Israel, but protection from their common enemies. And how do I know this? The two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul ( v.8 ) It comes as a snare, Christ says, on everybody. I want you to understand where Barry was coming from in writing the note. Yet, the Bible specifically says in Hebrews 4:15 that He was without sin. Nob. He needed God to forgive him. There is a great deal more than what meets the eye. However, there was not. The Gibeonites achieved their short term goal - survival; but they paid a terribly long term price for it - virtual slavery! But that conclusion is a bit too sanguine once you begin to look into that which is not said, or what is said elsewhere. He was endangering the whole army by being out there, an old man trying to fight like a young man. Saul tried to get back his throne from God by doing what he thought was right, what he thought was zealous for God, by getting rid of the foreignersincluding the Gibeonitesthat were among them. Here we find the Gibeonites demand, and King David counter demandsNOT. Had David been righteous and been crying out to God, God would have heard him. Their special, if dishonest, dealings with the leaders of Israel gained them a notoriety that most of the tribes and clans of the ancient Mid-East never attained. He did not perform any miracle, or any other thing to show that He was happy with the way that things turned out. Based on what he knew, and what was available in God's law, David should have been much more judicious. Also, the Lord pronounced, It is a result of the massacre by Saul and welcome classification because Saul indeed destroyed the Gibeonites in the Bible. So he said, "Whatever you say, I will do for you." During the time of the judges, the Israelites had repeatedly turned away, leaving them corrupt and faithless. II Samuel 21:10-11 Now Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until the late rains poured on them from heaven. Is there something I'm missing? 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