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Verse 2 Samuel 3:14. _DELIVER_ ME _MY WIFE_] It is supposed that he
meant to screen Abner; and to prevent that _violence_ which he might
have used in carrying off Michal....
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SENT MESSENGERS TO ISH-BOSHETH - Not to Abner, for the league between
David and Abner was a profound secret, but to Ish-bosheth who, David
knew, must act, feeble as he was, at Abner’s dictation. Abner...
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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 ...
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Abner offers to bring all Israel under the authority of David. As a
preliminary Michal is restored to David. Having sounded the elders of
the various tribes, Abner visited David to arrange matters....
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_Abner Contacts David._ 2 Samuel 3:12-21
12 And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose
_is_ the land? saying _also,_ Make thy league with me, and, behold, my
hand _shall be_ with...
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_AND HE SAID, WELL; I WILL MAKE A LEAGUE WITH THEE: BUT ONE THING I
REQUIRE OF THEE, THAT IS, THOU SHALT NOT SEE MY FACE, EXCEPT THOU
FIRST BRING MICHAL SAUL'S DAUGHTER, WHEN THOU COMEST TO SEE MY FAC...
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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...
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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...
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TO ISH-BOSHETH. — The demand is made upon the _de facto_ king that
all may be done legally, and David may not appear to be reclaiming his
wife by force. At the same time, Ish-bosheth is thus compelled...
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וַ יִּשְׁלַ֤ח דָּוִד֙ מַלְאָכִ֔ים אֶל
־אִֽישׁ־בֹּ֥שֶׁת...
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CHAPTER IV.
_ CONCLUSION OF THE CIVIL WAR_.
2 Samuel 3:1.
THE victory at the pool of Gibeon was far from ending the opposition
to David. In vain, for many a day, weary eyes looked out for the dove
w...
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ABNER WINS DAVID'S FAVOR
2 Samuel 3:12
We cannot defend David's request for Michal to be restored to him. It
inflicted bitter pain on an apparently happy pair, and Michal's
revenge stung him to the q...
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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...
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_Isboseth. Thus he would screen the perfidy of Abner, (Menochius) and
hinder him from using any violence. (Calmet) --- The pacific king
accedes immediately to the request, as he had no personal aversi...
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(13) And he said, Well; I will make a league with thee: but one thing
I require of thee, that is, Thou shalt not see my face, except thou
first bring Michal Saul's daughter, when thou comest to see my...
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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...
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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...
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AND DAVID SENT MESSENGERS TO ISHBOSHETH, SAUL'S SON,.... When Abner's
messengers returned to him, and acquainted him with the condition of
David's entering into a league with him, it is highly probabl...
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And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's son, saying, Deliver
[me] my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins
of the Philistines.
Ver. 14. _For a hundred foreskins._] He mi...
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_David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth_ We are not informed what answer
Abner gave to David when he required the forementioned condition of
him. But it is probable he let him know, as the truth was, th...
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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...
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And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul's son, saying, Deliver
me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of
the Philistines, that being the purchase price, the morning g...
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ABNER LEAVES ISHBOSHETH FOR DAVID...
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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...
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7-21 Many, like Abner, are not above committing base crimes, who are
too proud to bear reproof, or even the suspicion of being guilty.
While men go on in sin, and apparently without concern, they are...
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ISH-BOSHETH S consent was necessary, both to take her away from her
present husband, and to persuade her to return to David. Hereby David
opened to him also a door of hope for his reconciliation, lest...
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2 Samuel 3:14 David H1732 sent H7971 (H8799) messengers H4397
Ishbosheth H378 Sauls H7586 son H1121 saying H559 ...
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ABNER QUARRELS WITH ISH-BOSHETH OVER ONE OF SAUL'S CONCUBINES AND
DECIDES AS A CONSEQUENCE TO ADVANCE DAVID'S CLAIMS TO THE THRONE OF
ISRAEL (2 SAMUEL 3:7).
While David's strengthening position is see...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 3:12 David clearly does not mind taking
the Israelite kingdom from Ish-bosheth, and he stresses his closeness
to Saul as Saul’s son-in-law. David states that he has legally p...
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES—
2 Samuel 3:1. “THE WAR.” “Not continual fighting, but the state
of hostility in which they continued to stand towards one another.”
_(Keil.)_
2 Samuel 3:3. “CHILIAB.” C...
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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...
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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)....
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1 Samuel 18:25; 1 Samuel 18:27; 2 Samuel 2:10...
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Ishbosheth — Whose consent was necessary, both to take her away from
her present husband, and to persuade her to return to David. Hereby
also David opened to him a door of hope for his reconciliation,...