2 Samuel 3:37

For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.

Related Commentaries of 2 Samuel 3:37

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...
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, a...
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...
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

For all the people and all Israel understood that day ,.... Not the people of Judah only, but of Israel also, to whom the knowledge of these things...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner. Ver. 37. That it was not of the...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them They were satisfied concerning David's integrity, and the sincerity of his sorrow at the deat...
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

Not done by his design or good will.
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

For all the people, those present in Hebron, and all Israel, to whom the news was brought, understood that day that it was not of the king to slay...

³⁷ For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.

Related Commentaries of 2 Samuel 3:37

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the 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

2 Samuel 3:37