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Verse 2 Samuel 3:31. _DAVID SAID TO JOAB_] He commanded him to take on
him the part of a principal mourner....
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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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BIER. Hebrew. _mittah,_. bed; See 2 Samuel 4:7, and compare Exodus
8:3. The poor man's couch by day was his bed by night, and sometimes
his bier....
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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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_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._
Rend your clothes...
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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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MOURN BEFORE ABNER] i.e. precede the bier. This was all the punishment
David was strong enough to inflict....
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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 יֹּאמֶר֩ דָּוִ֨ד אֶל ־יֹואָ֜ב וְ
אֶל
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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 David said to Joab, and to all the people that [were] with him,
Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn (m) before
Abner. And king David [himself] followed the bier.
(m) Meaning...
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_Joab. Requiring him to make some reparation, at least, for the
offence, and to render the funeral pomp more solemn. All were obliged
to rend their garments, and to put on sackcloth, on such occasions...
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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 DAVID SAID TO JOAB, AND TO ALL THE PEOPLE THAT [WERE] WITH
HIM,.... To his whole court, Joab being present: for he did not flee,
nor was he laid hold on in order to be brought to justice; which sh...
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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.
Ver. 31. _And D...
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_David said to Joab and all the people_, &c. The command was
especially given to Joab, to bring him to repentance for his sin, and
to expose him to public shame. _Rend your clothes and gird you with
s...
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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 David said to Joab and to all the people that were with him, Rend
your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, the signs of deepest grief,
AND MOURN BEFORE ABNER, in the presence of his corpse, by a...
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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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BIER:
_ Heb._ bed...
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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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DAVID SAID TO JOAB; him he especially obliged to it; partly to bring
him to repentance for his sin; partly to expose him to public shame,
and to the contempt and hatred of all the people, with whom he...
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2 Samuel 3:31 David H1732 said H559 (H8799) Joab H3097 people H5971
Tear H7167 (H8798) clothes H899 gird...
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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 Kings 19:1; 2 Samuel 1:11; 2 Samuel 1:2; Genesis 37:29; Genesis
37:34
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Joab — Him he especially obliged to it, to bring him to repentance
for his sin, and to expose him to public shame. Followed — That is,
attending upon his corps, and paying him that respect which was d...