2 Samuel 3:28-39
guiltless Gen 9:6; Exod 21:12; Num 35:33; Deut 21:1-9; Matt 27:24 blood Heb. bloods, Gen 4:10 *marg. rest 2Sam 1:16; Judg 9:24, Judg 9:56-57; 1Kgs 2:31-34; Acts 28:4; Rev 16:6 let there 1Sam 2:32-36; 2Kgs 5:27; Ps 109:8-19 fail Heb. be cut off an issue Lev 13:44-46; 2Kgs 5:1 slew Abner Prov 28:17; Acts 28:4 because 2Sam 2:19-23 And David David, intending no doubt to punish Joab, and to lessen his authority with the people, commanded him to take upon him the office of chief mourner; but, as his revenge was gratified, his rival removed, and no heavier punishment inflicted, it is probable his hardened mind would feel but little objection to the ceremony. Rend 2Sam 1:2, 2Sam 1:11; Gen 37:29, Gen 37:34; Josh 7:6; Judg 11:35; 2Kgs 19:1 bier Heb. bed, Luke 7:14 lifted 2Sam 1:12, 2Sam 18:33; 1Sam 30:4; Job 31:28; Prov 24:17; Luke 19:41-42 as a fool dieth That is, as a bad man, as the word frequently signifies in Scripture. 2Sam 13:12-13, 2Sam 13:28-29; Prov 18:7; Eccl 2:15-16; Jer 17:11; Luke 12:19-20 hands The hand of malefactors were usually secured with cords, and their feet with fetters; a custom to which David affectingly alludes in his lamentation over the dust of Abner. Thy hands, O Abner, were not bound, as found to be a malefactor, nor thy feet put in fetters; thou was treated with honour by him whose business it was to judge thee, and thy attachment to the house of Saul was esteemed rather generous than culpable. As the best of men may fall, so thou fellest by the sword of treachery, not of justice. Judg 16:21; Ps 107:10-11 wicked men Heb. children of iniquity, Job 24:14; Hos 6:9 wept 2Sam 1:12 cause 2Sam 12:17; Jer 16:7; Ezek 24:17, Ezek 24:22 So do 2Sam 3:9; Ruth 1:17 till the 2Sam 1:12; Judg 20:26 pleased them Heb. was good in their eyes as 2Sam 15:6, 2Sam 15:13; Ps 62:9; Mark 7:37, Mark 15:11-13 a prince 2Sam 3:12, 2Sam 2:8; 1Sam 14:50-51; Job 32:9 I am Exod 21:12; 2Chr 19:6-7; Ps 75:10, Ps 101:8; Prov 20:8, Prov 25:5 weak Heb. tender, 1Chr 22:5; Isa 7:4 *marg. Rom 13:4 the sons 1Chr 2:15-16 too hard 2Sam 19:6-7, 2Sam 19:13 the Lord 1Kgs 2:5-6, 1Kgs 2:33-34; Ps 7:16, Ps 28:4, Ps 62:12; 2Tim 4:14
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