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THY HANDS WERE NOT BOUND ... - This thought prepares the way for the
solution; Abner had been treacherously murdered by wicked men....
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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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NOT BOUND: i.e. as. malefactor. Compare 1 Samuel 25:25; 1 Samuel
25:26.
FETTERS. Hebrew. brass, put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause)
for fetters made of it. App-6.
WICKED MEN. "sons of. _av...
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_Thy hands_, &c. Two explanations of these words seem possible; either
(1) Thou hadst not committed any crime to deserve a malefactor's
punishment, but wast causelessly murdered by treacherous enemies...
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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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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...
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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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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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THY HANDS WERE NOT BOUND. — The people were moved greatly by the
sight of David’s sorrow, but still more by this brief elegy over
Abner. The whole circumstances are summed up in a few pregnant words:...
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יָדֶ֣ךָ לֹֽא ־אֲסֻרֹ֗ות וְ
רַגְלֶ֨יךָ֙ לֹא ־ל
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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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_Iniquity. David does not spare Joab, in this canticle, which was sung
by all the people. (Calmet) --- He intimates, that if he had not used
deceit, Abner would not have been so easily overcome. (Hayd...
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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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THY HANDS [WERE] NOT BOUND, NOR THY FEET PUT INTO FETTERS,.... As
malefactors are when they are taken up for any crime, and especially
when proved upon them, and condemned for it, and brought forth to...
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_Thy hands [were] not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man
falleth before wicked men, [so] fellest thou. And all the people wept
again over him._
Ver. 34. _Thy hands were not bound._] As on...
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_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...
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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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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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WICKED MEN:
_ Heb._ children of iniquity...
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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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THY HANDS WERE NOT BOUND, NOR THY FEET PUT INTO FETTERS; thou didst
not tamely yield up thyself to Joab, as his prisoner, to be bound hand
and foot, at his pleasure. Joab did not overcome thee generou...
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2 Samuel 3:34 hands H3027 bound H631 (H8803) feet H7272 put H5066
(H8717) fetters H5178 falls H5307 ...
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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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_Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters._
THE MORAL OF AFFLICTION
I. What there is in the text expressive of afflictive scenes.
1. Let us observe, that the text contains the speech...
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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; Hosea 6:9; Job 24:14; Judges 16:21; Psalms 107:10;...
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Not bound — Thou didst not tamely yield up thyself to Joab, to be
bound hand and foot at his pleasure. Joab did not overcome thee in an
equal combat, nor durst he attempt thee in that way, as a genera...