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Verse 2 Samuel 3:21. _HE WENT IN PEACE._] David dismissed him in good
faith, having no sinister design in reference to him....
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Abner repeats the offer 2 Samuel 3:12; and the condition of Michal’s
return 2 Samuel 3:13 being now fulfilled, David accepts it, and the
league between them was solemnly ratified at David’s board, ami...
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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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THINE HEART. thy soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13.
SENT ABNER AWAY. let Abner go....
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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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_NOW THEN DO IT: FOR THE LORD HATH SPOKEN OF DAVID, SAYING, BY THE
HAND OF MY SERVANT DAVID I WILL SAVE MY PEOPLE ISRAEL OUT OF THE HAND
OF THE PHILISTINES, AND OUT OF THE HAND OF ALL THEIR ENEMIES._...
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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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MAKE A LEAGUE WITH THEE] as they did with Saul (1 Samuel 10:25) and as
they tried to do with Rehoboam (1 Kings 12:4). Before making him king,
they wished to see their rights safeguarded....
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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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וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אַבְנֵ֣ר אֶל ־דָּוִ֡ד
אָק֣וּמָה ׀
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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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_And may. Some Latin copies read with the Hebrew, "and it (Israel) may
enter," ineat._...
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(20) So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And
David made Abner and the men that were with him a feast. (21) And
Abner said unto David, I will arise and go, and will gather all Is...
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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 ABNER SAID TO DAVID, I WILL ARISE AND GO,.... Into the several
parts of the land of Israel:
AND WILL GATHER ALL ISRAEL UNTO MY LORD THE KING; the princes of the
several tribes, and the elders of...
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And Abner said unto David, I will arise and go, and will gather all
Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make a league with thee,
and that thou mayest reign over all that thine heart desireth....
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_Abner said, I will gather all Israel unto my lord the king_ How empty
and ill founded are the purposes of vain man! Abner, who here promises
kingdoms, soon found that he could not ensure to himself o...
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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 Abner said unto David, I will arise and go, and will gather all
Israel unto my lord the king that they may make a league with thee,
acknowledging him as the chosen king of Jehovah, through whom, a...
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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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ALL ISRAEL, i.e. the elders and chieftains of all Israel, representing
and ruling all the rest....
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2 Samuel 3:21 Abner H74 said H559 (H8799) David H1732 arise H6965
(H8799) go H3212 (H8799) gather...
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TREACHERY, TREACHERY! (2 SAMUEL 3:17).
In this passage we have an account of double treachery. First we have
portrayed the treachery of Abner who, having installed Ish-bosheth as
king, callously betra...
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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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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 Kings 11:37; 2 Samuel 2:9; 2 Samuel 3:10; 2 Samuel 3:12; Phi