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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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Abner offers to bring all Israel under the authority of David. As a
preliminary Michal is restored to David. Having sounded the elders of
the various tribes, Abner visited David to arrange matters....
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HER. Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate read "her" in the text.
PHALTIEL. Same as Phalti (1 Samuel 25:44)....
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_Phaltiel_ Called _Phalti_in 1 Samuel 25:44, where his marriage with
Michal is recorded....
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Abner's negotiations with David
12. _on his behalf_ The Sept. rendering _immediately_is adopted by
some commentators, but is unsupported by the use of the word
elsewhere.
_Whose is the land_ The mean...
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_Abner Contacts David._ 2 Samuel 3:12-21
12 And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose
_is_ the land? saying _also,_ Make thy league with me, and, behold, my
hand _shall be_ with...
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_AND HE SAID, WELL; I WILL MAKE A LEAGUE WITH THEE: BUT ONE THING I
REQUIRE OF THEE, THAT IS, THOU SHALT NOT SEE MY FACE, EXCEPT THOU
FIRST BRING MICHAL SAUL'S DAUGHTER, WHEN THOU COMEST TO SEE MY FAC...
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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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וַ יִּשְׁלַח֙ אִ֣ישׁ בֹּ֔שֶׁת וַ
יִּקָּחֶ֖הָ מֵ֣...
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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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ABNER WINS DAVID'S FAVOR
2 Samuel 3:12
We cannot defend David's request for Michal to be restored to him. It
inflicted bitter pain on an apparently happy pair, and Michal's
revenge stung him to the q...
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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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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 ISHBOSHETH SENT AND TOOK HER FROM [HER] HUSBAND,.... Her second
husband, to whom Saul had given her, 1 Samuel 25:44;
[EVEN] FROM PHALTIEL THE SON OF LAISH; he is called Phalti in
1 Samuel 25:44....
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_And Ishbosheth sent, and took her from [her] husband, [even] from
Phaltiel the son of Laish._
Ver. 15. _And Ishbosheth sent, and took her from her husband._] By
his regal authority he rescindeth tha...
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_Ish-bosheth sent and took her from Phaltiel_ This was an honourable
action of Ish-bosheth to restore David his lawful wife. _Her husband
went with her along weeping_ “Mr. Bayle,” says Delaney,
“consi...
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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 Ishbosheth, who would not have been able to refuse the demand of
David even if he had been so inclined, SENT AND TOOK HER FROM HER
HUSBAND, EVEN FROM PHALTIEL, THE SON OF LAISH, the man who seems...
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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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7-21 Many, like Abner, are not above committing base crimes, who are
too proud to bear reproof, or even the suspicion of being guilty.
While men go on in sin, and apparently without concern, they are...
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For, being forsaken by Abner, he durst not deny David, into whose
power he saw he must unavoidedly come; and besides he supposed that
she might be an effectual instrument to make his peace with David....
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2 Samuel 3:15 Ishbosheth H378 sent H7971 (H8799) took H3947 (H8799)
husband H376 Paltiel H6409 son H1121 Laish...
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ABNER QUARRELS WITH ISH-BOSHETH OVER ONE OF SAUL'S CONCUBINES AND
DECIDES AS A CONSEQUENCE TO ADVANCE DAVID'S CLAIMS TO THE THRONE OF
ISRAEL (2 SAMUEL 3:7).
While David's strengthening position is see...
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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 3:12 David clearly does not mind taking
the Israelite kingdom from Ish-bosheth, and he stresses his closeness
to Saul as Saul’s son-in-law. David states that he has legally p...
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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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1 Samuel 25:44...