“ And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth? ”
Lamented - i. e. composed and sang the funeral dirge which follows (compare 2 Samuel 1:17 ). Died Abner ... - i. e. The great and noble and valiant Abner had died as ignobly and as helplessl...
And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner (n) as a fool dieth? (n) He declares that Abner died not as a wretch or vile person, but as a valiant man might do, being traitorously deceived...
David made it clear that he had nothing to do with the murder. He gave Abner honourable burial, and king and people lamented him. The dirge in 2 Samuel 3:33 f. is generally accepted as the work of...
Died... ? Figure of speech Erotesis.App-6. a fool dieth: i.e. running into needless danger.
DISCOURSE: 310 THE DEATH OF ABNER 2 Samuel 3:31-34 . And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And...
And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth? The king lamented over Abner - This lamentation, though short, is very pathetic. It is a high strain of poetry; but the measure...
And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth? The king lamented over Abner. This brief elegy is an effusion of indignation as much as of sorrow. Since Abner had stab...
Abner is Treacherously Murdered by Joab 3. Chileab] We read nothing more of him and he probably died as a child. In 1 Chronicles 3:1 he is called Daniel. Geshur ] a kingdom on the border of Bas...
CHAPTER V. ASSASSINATION OF ABNER AND ISHBOSHETH. 2 Samuel 3:22-39 ; 2 Samuel 4:1-12 IT is quite possible that, in treating with Abner, David showed too complacent a temper, that he treated...
David's Lament over Abner 2 Samuel 3:31-39 It was a noble spectacle when David followed the bier of Abner and wept at his grave. He forgot that this man had been his persistent foe, and remembe...
The long warfare continued, and the progress of it is declared in the opening verse of this chapter: "And David waxed stronger and stronger, but the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker." At last m...
(31) And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier. (32) And they...
And the king lamented over Abner ,.... Delivered an elegy or funeral oration, which he had composed on this occasion, as Josephus u suggests: for he had cried and wept before, but now he expressed s...
And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth? Ver. 33. Died Abner as a fool dieth? ] Sept., As Nabal died? Was this a fit death for so gallant a man, to be thus basely bu...
Died Abner as a fool dieth? That is, as a wicked man. Was he cut off by the hand of justice for his crimes? Nothing less; but by Joab's malice and treachery. It is a sad thing to die as a fool die...
Though Saul had died, yet there continues long war between his house and the house of David. We have seen that Saul stands for the energy of the flesh, which does not easily give up though it is doom...
Joab Murders Abner; David's Reflections on Abner's Murder. B. C. 1048. 22 And, behold,...
i. e. As a wicked man; for such are oft called fools in Scripture. Was he cut off by the hands of justice for his crimes? Nothing less; but by Joab's malice and treachery. Or did he die by his own...
David Laments The Death of Abner And Demonstrates His Innocence In The Matter ( 2 Samuel 3:31-39 ). In this final passage in the chapter David makes clear his grief over the death of Abner, thus e...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 2 Samuel 3:22 . “Joab came from pursuing,” etc. “Whither, it is not said, but probably outside the Israelitish territory near the tribe of Judah. In the incomplet...
2 Samuel 3:33 I. The first mark of folly about Abner's death is his strange simplicity and wonderful credulity. He had been used to court life; he had been continually by the king's side, and ther...
2 Samuel 3:1 . Long war, of contention and strife, rather than of bloody battles. 2 Samuel 3:3 . The daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur. David had invaded the country of this prince, and might...
Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David. Progress and termination of the civil war What grief tales of distress are folded up in these brief words, “There was lo...
EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 3:1 There was long war. As Ishbosheth reigned only two years, and as "the house of Saul" is the phrase used, it seems probable that after Ishbosheth's murder, during t...
Abner Murdered by Joab, Mourned by David
2 Samuel 13:12 ; 2 Samuel 13:13 ; 2 Samuel 13:28 ; 2 Samuel 13:29 ; Ecclesiastes 2:15 ; Ecclesiastes 2:16 ; Jeremiah 17:11 ; Luke 12:19 ; Luke 12:20 ; Proverbs 18:7
As a fool — That is, as a wicked man. Was he cut off by the hand of justice for his crimes? Nothing less; but by Joab's malice and treachery. It is a sad thing to die as a fool dieth, as they do th...