Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
2 Samuel 3:33
And the king lamented over Abner, in an elegy expressing his deepest sorrow over Abner's innocent and shameful death, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth, like a good-for-nothing, worthless fellow?
And the king lamented over Abner, in an elegy expressing his deepest sorrow over Abner's innocent and shameful death, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth, like a good-for-nothing, worthless fellow?
Verse 2 Samuel 3:33. _THE KING LAMENTED OVER ABNER_] This lamentation, though short, is very pathetic. It is a high strain of poetry; but the _measure_ cannot be easily ascertained. Our own translatio...
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 helplessly as the m...
4. ABNER'S DEEDS AND END CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The long war and its results (2 Samuel 3:1)_ 2. David's family (2 Samuel 3:2) 3. Abner's defiant deed (2 Samuel 3:6) 4. Abner and Ish-bosheth ...
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 Dav...
DIED... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis.App-6._ A FOOL DIETH: i.e. running into needless danger....
_lamented_ See note on ch. 2 Samuel 1:17. _Died Abner as a fool dieth_ Lit. AS DIES A FOOL SHOULD ABNER DIE? Was this ignoble death, befitting a fool, to be the fate of so brave a warrior?...
David's lamentation for Abner 31. _gird you with sackcloth_ The practice of wearing garments of the coarse dark hair-cloth used for making sacks as a sign of mourning was very ancient (Genesis 37:34)...
DISCOURSE: 310 THE DEATH OF ABNER 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 Davi...
_David Mourns for Abner._ 2 Samuel 3:31-39 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 Davi...
_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 stabbed As...
3:33 fool (a-14) _ Nabal_ , 'impious,' 'ungodly.' see 1 Samuel 25:3 ....
DIED ABNER AS A FOOL DIETH?] i.e. as one who runs into needless danger, or meets his death when engaged in a shameful conspiracy: see on 1 Samuel 25:25....
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 Bashan, whe...
DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL 2 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 3 V1 So Saul’s family opposed David. Their armies continued to fight for a long time. David’s side became more powerful. But the peo...
וַ יְקֹנֵ֥ן הַ מֶּ֛לֶךְ אֶל ־אַבְנֵ֖ר וַ
CHAPTER V. _ ASSASSINATION OF ABNER AND ISHBOSHETH._ 2 Samuel 3:22; 2 Samuel 4:1 IT is quite possible that, in treating with Abner, David showed too complacent a temper, that he treated too lightly...
DAVID'S LAMENT OVER ABNER 2 Samuel 3:31 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 remembered only...
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 mat...
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...
_Died. Hebrew, "Is Abner dead, like Nabal, " "a fool," (Chaldean) "like the wicked?" "Ought so brave a man to have died in this treacherous manner?"_...
(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 b...
We have seen the sorrowful circumstances out of which arose the first desire to have a king in Israel, and the remarkable fact that, although it was a sin, God nevertheless did not put the people back...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 3 AND 4. Alas! the history of this period plunges us into the ways of man. It is no longer merely David walking in the path of faith. It is Joab, a clever, am...
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 some...
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 butc...
_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 diet...
1 During the warre Dauid still waxeth stronger. 2 Sixe sonnes were borne to him in Hebron. 6 Abner displeased with Ishbosheth, 12 reuolteth to Dauid. 13 Dauid requireth a condition to bring him hi...
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 doome...
22-39 Judgments are prepared for such scorners as Abner; but Joab, in what he did, acted wickedly. David laid Abner's murder deeply to heart, and in many ways expressed his detestation of it. The gui...
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 fol...
2 Samuel 3:33 king H4428 sang H6969 (H8787) Abner H74 said H559 (H8799) Abner H74 die H4191 ...
DAVID LAMENTS THE DEATH OF ABNER AND DEMONSTRATES HIS INNOCENCE IN THE MATTER (2 SAMUEL 3:31). In this final passage in the chapter David makes clear his grief over the death of Abner, thus establishi...
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 therefor...
CONTENTS: Abner deserts to David. Joab's murder of Abner. CHARACTERS: God, David, Joab, Abner, Ish-bosheth, Michal, Phaltiel, Rizpeh, Abishai, Asahel. CONCLUSION: Evil pursues sinners and will overt...
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 have...
_Died Abner as a fool dieth?_ THE FOOL’S DEATH There are two or three different renderings of our text. Some take it thus--“Died Abner as a wicked man?” And then the answer is, “No, he did not. He fe...
_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 long w...
2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 3:28 Joab is apparently too important and useful for David to punish him for killing Abner. Instead David curses Joab and publicly mourns Abner, having a funeral for him and...
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 incomplete organi...
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 the five year...
Now there was a long war [Verse, chapter three] between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David became stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul became weaker and weaker (2 Samuel 3:1)....
2 Samuel 13:12; 2 Samuel 13:13; 2 Samuel 13:28; 2 Samuel 13:29;...
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 that...