1 Samuel 14:50; 1 Samuel 14:51; 2 Samuel 2:8; 2 Samuel 3:12; Job 32:9
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 Sam...
Know ye... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.
And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
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, a...
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 calle...
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, Davi...
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...
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...
(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,...
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 peopl...
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...
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...
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 fles...
Joab Murders Abner; David's Reflections on Abner's Murder. B. C. 1048....
A great man, both for his illustrious quality, and for his high courage and wise conduct; and especially now for his great usefulness and serviceab...
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 mak...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 2 Samuel 3:22 . “Joab came from pursuing,” etc. “Whither, it is not said, but probably outside the Israelitish t...
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...
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...
Know are not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel? A great man As we review the history of the world, we see it div...
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...
Abner Murdered by Joab, Mourned by David
And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel? Abner had been a prince by reason...
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.
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?