2 Samuelchapter 21
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Rizpah’s Kindness toward the Dead, Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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2 Samuel 21— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
Three years of famine and the Gibeonites' price1
2 Samuel 21:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Samuel 21:1
On account of Shaul. On account of the sin regarding Shaul who was buried immediately and secretly as the men of Yovish Gilod stole his body and buried him. [Consequently] he was not eulogized with the respect due him.
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2 Samuel 21:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Samuel 21:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Samuel 21:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Samuel 21:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Samuel 21:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
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2 Samuel 21:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Samuel 21:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rizpah's sackcloth on the rock, from harvest until rain10
2 Samuel 21:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Samuel 21:10
Until the rains fell on them. During the rainy season in Tishri. Their bones were not removed for burial. But is it not written, "His body should not remain [hanging] overnight" 18 Devorim:22. Why did Dovid let this happen? ?
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2 Samuel 21:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Samuel 21:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Samuel 21:12
He took Shaul's bones. He [Dovid] was told concerning them, "Because of Shaul" 20 Earlier in:1. who was not eulogized according to halachah.
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2 Samuel 21:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Samuel 21:13
They gathered the bones. Of the seven people that were hung there. 21 In verse.
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2 Samuel 21:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Samuel 21:14
Everything that the king had commanded. To eulogize them in all of the cities of Yisroel.
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Four giants of Gath, and the lamp of Israel kept burning15
2 Samuel 21:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Samuel 21:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
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2 Samuel 21:18· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
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2 Samuel 21:20· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Samuel 21:21· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Samuel 21:22· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible

