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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

2 Samuel 3:39

King. Septuagint, "and that I am to-day a relation, (by my wife) and appointed king by the king?" (Haydock) --- He seemed as yet to have little more than the title. His throne was not well established; (Calmet; Worthington) and to undertake to punish the offenders now, might have had so pernicious consequences as the attempt of Isboseth to correct his general. (Haydock) --- IT is better to temporize than to increase the distemper, (Calmet) by a fruitless zeal for justice. (Haydock) --- The punishment was only deferred, 3 Kings ii. 5. (Menochius) -- Hard. Powerful or insupportable. (Calmet) --- This year was memorable for the death of Codrus, king of Athens. (Salien, the year of the world 2985.)

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See also 2 Samuel 3:39 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 2 Samuel 3:39. _I_ AM _THIS DAY WEAK_] Had Abner lived, all the tribes of Israel would have been brought under my government. _THOUGH ANOINTED KING_] I have little else than the title: _first_...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • 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 Samuel 3:33 f. is generally accepted as the work of Dav...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SHALL REWARD. Compare 1Ki 2:5, 1 Kings 2:6. EVIL. Hebrew. _ra_. _a_ `. App-44. WICKEDNESS. Hebrew. _ra_. _a_ `. App-44....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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)...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    To his confidential servants David speaks his whole mind freely. He feels that some apology is needed for leaving the authors of this heinous crime unpunished. As an excuse for doing so he pleads his...

  • 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, and he was universally acquitted of all guilt in his death...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    3:39 though (a-7) Lit. 'and.' me. (b-21) Or 'are more powerful than I.'...

  • 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 called Daniel. GESHUR] a kingdom on the border of Bashan, whe...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I AM THIS DAY WEAK. — David’s high appreciation of the importance and value of Abner shows that Joab’s jealousy was not without ground, and there is a tone of deep sadness in his words, “these men the...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אָנֹכִ֨י הַ יֹּ֥ום רַךְ֙ וּ מָשׁ֣וּחַ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • 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 house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker." At last mat...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS THIS whole chapter, except what the first verse of it teacheth, serves to show the Reader and Writer what a mass of treachery, deceit, and evil, the human heart is made up of. Alas! alas!...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (38) And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel? (39) And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zer...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND I [AM] THIS DAY WEAK, THOUGH ANOINTED KING,.... Which seems to be given as a reason, or for an excuse why he did not inflict just punishment upon the murderer, according to the law of God, because...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And I [am] this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah [be] too hard for me: the LORD shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness. Ver. 39. _And I am this day...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And I am this day weak_ Hebrew, רךְ, _rack, tender;_ that is, his kingdom was young, was in its infancy, as we speak, and not well settled and confirmed. The metaphor is taken from a young and tender...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And I am this day weak, still powerless to act as the occasion really required, THOUGH ANOINTED KING; AND THESE MEN, THE SONS OF ZERUIAH, BE TOO HARD FOR ME, he did not feel able as yet to bring them...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ABNER MURDERED BY JOAB, MOURNED BY DAVID...

  • Leslie 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 flesh, which does not easily give up though it is doome...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    WEAK: _ Heb._ tender...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WEAK, or _tender_, in the infancy of my kingdom, not well rooted and settled in it. The metaphor is taken from a young and tender child or plant. THE SONS OF ZERUIAH; Joab and Abishai, the sons of my...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Samuel 3:39 weak H7390 today H3117 anointed H4886 (H8803) king H4428 men H582 sons H1121 Zeruiah H6870 ha

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • 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 had invaded the country of this prince, and might have...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I am this day weak, though anointed king._ BALANCINGS IN LIFE David utters the words which hint at something concerning the balancings in life. I. Some disappointment is sure to follow upon the att...

  • 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 are folded up in these brief words, “There was long w...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The 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 territory near the tribe of Judah. In the incomplete organi...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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)....

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 2:15; 1 Chronicles 2:16; 1 Chronicles 22:5; 1 Kings 2:33;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Weak — In the infancy of my kingdom, not well settled in it. The metaphor is taken from a young and tender child or plant. These men — Joab and Abishai, the sons of thy sister Zeruiah. Too hard — That...

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