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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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An editorial note, including an account of David's family. It is
curious that the last-named wife, Eglah, and she only, is expressly
called David's wife. The letters in the Heb. may be a corruption of...
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DAVID'S WIFE. Probably added, parenthetically, to indicate his _first_
wife...
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_Eglah David's wife_ A Jewish tradition as old as the time of Jerome
(_Quaest. Hebr. in libros Regum_) makes Eglah (_heifer_, cp. Judges
14:18) another name for _Michal_, who is supposed to be particu...
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3. A Period of Two Kings in Israel, 2 Samuel 3:1-39.
_David's Family._ 2 Samuel 3:1-5
Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of
David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, a...
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_AND THE SIXTH, ITHREAM, BY EGLAH DAVID'S WIFE. THESE WERE BORN TO
DAVID IN HEBRON._
Eglah, David's wife. This addition has led many to think that Eglah
was another name for Michal, the first and pro...
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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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(2-5) AND UNTO DAVID. — The list of David’s sons born during his
seven and a half years’ reign in Hebron rather interrupts the
continuity of the narrative, but is quite in accordance with the habit
of...
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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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A SPLIT IN THE ENEMY'S RANKS
2 Samuel 3:1
Abner's career reveals the principles on which ambitious men build
their lives. He was, according to David's estimate, a great man and a
prince, but his soul...
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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 the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David's wife. These were born to
David in (c) Hebron.
(c) Within seven years and six months....
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_Wife. She was otherwise of no nobility, but perhaps loved by David
more than the rest, as Rachel was by Jacob. The Rabbins would infer
that Egla and Michol are the same person. But the latter had no...
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(2) And unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was
Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; (3) And his second, Chileab, of
Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom t...
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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 THE SIXTH, ITHREAM, BY EGLAH DAVID'S WIFE,.... Who also is not
spoken of in any other place; only, in a like chronological account as
the former, it is remarked that the mother of this only is cal...
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_And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David's wife. These were born to
David in Hebron._
Ver. 5. Eglah David's wife.] His wife by a specialty: most dearly
beloved. _a_ Some make her to be Michel, and her...
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_By Eglah, David's wife_ This is added, either because she was of
obscure parentage, and was known by no other title but her relation to
David: or, because this was his first and most proper wife, bes...
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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 the sixth Ithream, by Eglah, David's wife. The three women
mentioned last are otherwise unknown. THESE WERE BORN TO DAVID IN
HEBRON, the fruit of his strange polygamous marriages....
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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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1-6 The length of this war tried the faith and patience of David, and
made his settlement at last the more welcome. The contest between
grace and corruption in the hearts of believers, may fitly be c...
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DAVID'S WIFE: this is added, either because she was of obscure
parentage, and was known by no other title but her relation to David;
or to distinguish her from some other person of that name, who
poss...
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2 Samuel 3:5 sixth H8345 Ithream H3507 Davids H1732 wife H802 Eglah
H5698 born H3205 (H8795) David H1732 Hebron...
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DAVID MAKES HIMSELF STRONG IN HEBRON WHILE ABNER MAKES HIMSELF STRONG
IN A WEAKENED HOUSE OF SAUL (2 SAMUEL 3:1).
There would appear to have been constant antagonism between Judah and
Israel from the...
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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 3:2 It is assumed that CHILEAB (called
Daniel in 1 Chronicles 3:1) died young, since he is not mentioned as a
possible successor in...
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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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Eglah — This is added, either because she was of obscure parentage,
and was known by no other title but her relation to David: or, because
this was his first and most proper wife, best known by her ot...