2 Samuel 3:31

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. David said to Joab - He commanded him to take on him the part of a principal mourner.

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Arno Geneva Study Bible

And David said to Joab, and to all the people that [were] with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn (m) before Abner. And k...
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 Sam...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

bier . Hebrew. mittah, . bed; See 2 Samuel 4:7 , and compare Exodus 8:3 . The poor man's couch by day was his bed by night, and sometimes his bie...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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 gi...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 kin...
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 calle...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Mourn before Abner ] i.e. precede the bier. This was all the punishment David was strong enough to inflict.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Rend your clothes. — David commands a public mourning with the usual signs of rent clothes and sackcloth, and lays this command especially upon Joa...
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, Davi...
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...
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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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 ki...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And David said to Joab, and to all the people that [were] with him ,.... To his whole court, Joab being present: for he did not flee, nor was he lai...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

David said to Joab and all the people , &c. The command was especially given to Joab, to bring him to repentance for his sin, and to expose him...
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 fles...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Joab Murders Abner; David's Reflections on Abner's Murder. B. C. 1048....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

David said to Joab; him he especially obliged to it; partly to bring him to repentance for his sin; partly to expose him to public shame, and to th...
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 mak...
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 t...
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...
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...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Abner Murdered by Joab, Mourned by David
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And David said to Joab and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, the signs of deepest grief, and mou...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 19:1 ; 2 Samuel 1:11 ; 2 Samuel 1:2 ; Genesis 37:29 ; Genesis 37:34 ; Joshua 7:6 ; Judges 11:35 ; Luke 7:14
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Joab — Him he especially obliged to it, to bring him to repentance for his sin, and to expose him to public shame. Followed — That is, attending up...

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.h

Related Commentaries of 2 Samuel 3:31

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

2 Samuel 3:31