Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Samuel 21:6

6 Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul , whom the LORD did chuse . And the king said, I will give them .

To vindicate his honour, which was injured by Saul's violation of the Oath and Covenant of God, and to appease his wrath.

Saul's Countrey, 1 Sam. 10. 26. and 11. 4. for their greater shame.

This is added to [illegible: 1 word] Saul's offen[illegible: 1+ letters]e, that it was committed not onely against them, but 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 perjury.

Having doubtless consulted God in the matter; who as he had before declared Saul's Bloody House to be the causes of this Judgment, so now commanded that Justice should be done upon it, and that the remaining Branches of it should be cut off; as sufficiently appears from hence, that God was satisfied and well pleased with the action; which he would not have been, if David had done it without his command; for then it had been a sinful action of David's, and contrary to a double Law of God, Deut. 21. 23. and 24. 16. which none but God himself could dispence with.

Marginal references: Or, chosen of the LORD.