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TO EAT MEAT ... - Fasting was a sign of the deepest mourning 2 Samuel
1:12. The fast lasted until the sun was set....
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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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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...
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MEAT. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Species) for food in
general....
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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)...
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_to cause David to eat meat_ Fasting was the usual accompaniment of
mourning. To shew his grief and his respect for Abner David refused to
eat until sunset, the regular time for terminating a fast. Cp...
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ALL THE PEOPLE CAME TO CAUSE DAVID TO EAT— When any one died among
the Jews, it was customary with the friends of the family to resort to
the house immediately after the funeral, and bring the best pr...
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_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...
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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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TILL THE SUN BE DOWN] The regular time for ending a fast, as it still
is in Mohammedan countries. The Hebrew day was reckoned from sunset to
sunset....
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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 EAT MEAT. — The fasting of David in his grief had already
attracted attention, so that the people came to urge him to take food;
but he utterly refused “till the sun be down,” the usual time of
end...
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וַ יָּבֹ֣א כָל ־הָ עָ֗ם לְ הַבְרֹ֧ות
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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...
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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...
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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 when all the people came to cause David to eat (o) meat while it
was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I
taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.
(o) Accor...
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_David. Hebrew, "to cause David to eat meat" (Haydock) at the feast,
which usually accompanied funerals, Genesis l, 3. (Calmet)_...
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(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...
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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 WHEN ALL THE PEOPLE CAME TO CAUSE DAVID TO EAT MEAT WHILE IT WAS
YET DAY,.... The custom was to bury in the daytime, and after the
funeral was over to provide and send in food to the relations of...
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And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was
yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I
taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.
Ver. 35. _To...
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_All the people came to cause David to eat_ This was agreeable to the
usage of the Jews; for when any one died among them, “it was
customary with the friends of the family to resort to the house
immed...
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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 when all the people came to cause David to eat meat, to partake of
food, WHILE IT WAS YET DAY, DAVID SWARE, SAYING, SO DO GOD TO ME AND
MORE ALSO IF I TASTE BREAD OR AUGHT ELSE TILL THE SUN BE DOW...
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ABNER MURDERED BY JOAB, MOURNED BY 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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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...
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TO EAT MEAT; to refresh and cheer up his depressed spirits, as they
used to do at funerals. See JEREMIAH 16:5 EZEKIEL 24:17. TILL THE SUN
BE DOWN, i.e. till evening; for then fasting days ended of cou...
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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...
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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 3:28 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...
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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...
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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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2 Samuel 1:12; 2 Samuel 12:17; 2 Samuel 3:9; Ezekiel 24:17; Ezek