Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
THE THREE YEARS' FAMINE FOR THE GIBEONITES CEASE BY HANGING SEVEN OF SAUL'S SONS. (II Samuel 21:1-9)
the Lord answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites—The sacred history has not recorded either the time or the reason of this massacre. Some think that they were sufferers in the atrocity perpetrated by Saul at Nob (I Samuel 22:19), where many of them may have resided as attendants of the priests; while others suppose it more probable that the attempt was made afterwards, with a view to regain the popularity he had lost throughout the nation by that execrable outrage.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 2 Samuel 21:1:
Joshua 9:14-15
2 Samuel 21:1
2 Samuel 24:1-4
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