2 Samuel 3:38 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel? ”

2 Samuel 3:38 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
2 Samuel 3:38 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Know ye... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.
2 Samuel 3:38 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
2 Samuel 3:38 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

It pleased them: as whatsoever, &c.— David's behaviour towards Abner had its success. The sincerity of his sorrow was seen by all the people, and he was universally acquitted of all guilt in hi...
2 Samuel 3:38 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
2 Samuel 3:38 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
2 Samuel 3:38 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
2 Samuel 3:38 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
2 Samuel 3:38 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(38) And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel? (39) And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Ze...
2 Samuel 3:38 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the king said unto his servants ,.... His courtiers, giving a reason why he mourned as he did; or "had said" w, and so is a reason why the people concluded, and were fully satisfied, he had no h...
2 Samuel 3:38 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel? Ver. 38. And the king said unto his servants. ] His courtiers and counsellors....
2 Samuel 3:38 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The king said unto his servants Who perhaps were not sensible enough of this loss, or thought he bewailed it too much; Know ye not that there is a prince, &c., fallen this day in Israel? He b...
2 Samuel 3:38 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
2 Samuel 3:38 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Joab Murders Abner; David's Reflections on Abner's Murder. B. C. 1048. 22 And, behold,...
2 Samuel 3:38 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

A great man, both for his illustrious quality, and for his high courage and wise conduct; and especially now for his great usefulness and serviceableness to me in giving me the entire and peaceable...
2 Samuel 3:38 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
2 Samuel 3:38 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 3:38 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
2 Samuel 3:38 - The Biblical Illustrator

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...
2 Samuel 3:38 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
2 Samuel 3:38 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Abner Murdered by Joab, Mourned by David
2 Samuel 3:38 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 14:50 ; 1 Samuel 14:51 ; 2 Samuel 2:8 ; 2 Samuel 3:12 ; Job 32:9
2 Samuel 3:38 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Know ye not, &c. — But how little, how mean are they made by death, who were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

2 Samuel 3:38 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 3:38 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

2 Samuel 3:38 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Samuel 3:38 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

2 Samuel 3:38 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 3:38 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Samuel 3:38 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Samuel 3:38 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Samuel 3:38 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Samuel 3:38 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Samuel 3:38 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Samuel 3:38 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Samuel 3:38 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 3:38 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Samuel 3:38 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Samuel 3:38 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 3:38 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Samuel 3:38 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Samuel 3:38 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Samuel 3:38 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Samuel 3:38 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Samuel 3:38 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 3:38 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes