Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.
long war
1 Kings 14:30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
1 Kings 15:16,32 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days…
between
Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your …
Psalm 45:3-5 Gird your sword on your thigh, O most mighty, with your glory and …
Matthew 10:35,36 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the …
Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the …
Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, …
David waxed
2 Samuel 2:17 And there was a very sore battle that day; and Abner was beaten, …
Esther 6:13 And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that …
Job 8:7 Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end should greatly increase.
Job 17:9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that has clean hands …
Psalm 84:7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appears before God.
Proverbs 4:18,19 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more …
Daniel 2:34,35,44,45 You saw till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote …
Revelation 6:2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a …
And unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;
And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
Chileab
1 Chronicles 3:1 Now these were the sons of David, which were born to him in Hebron; …
2 Samuel 2:2 So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, …
1 Samuel 25:3,42 Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: …
Absalom
2 Samuel 13:20-28 And Absalom her brother said to her, Has Amnon your brother been …
2 Samuel 14:24-33 And the king said, Let him turn to his own house, and let him not …
2 Samuel 15:1-18 And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots …
2 Samuel 17:1-14 Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve …
2 Samuel 18:9-18,33 And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode on a mule, …
Talmai
2 Samuel 13:37,38 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of …
Geshur
Deuteronomy 3:14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob to the coasts …
Joshua 13:13 Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, …
1 Samuel 27:8 And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the …
And the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;
And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron.
And it came to pass, while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong for the house of Saul.
Abner
2 Samuel 2:8,9 But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth …
2 Kings 10:23 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of …
2 Chronicles 25:8 But if you will go, do it; be strong for the battle: God shall make …
Proverbs 21:30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
Isaiah 8:9,10 Associate yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; …
Joel 3:9-13 Proclaim you this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty …
Matthew 12:30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathers not with …
And Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ishbosheth said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine?
Rizpah
2 Samuel 21:8-11 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom …
Wherefore. This action of Abner's seems a most evident proof that he in- tended to seize on the government; and it was so understood by Ish-bosheth; see Parallel Texts.
gone in
2 Samuel 12:8 And I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into …
2 Samuel 16:21,22 And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's concubines, …
1 Kings 2:17,21,22 And he said, Speak, I pray you, to Solomon the king, (for he will …
Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman?
Abner
Psalm 76:10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise you: the remainder of wrath …
Mark 6:18,19 For John had said to Herod, It is not lawful for you to have your …
Am I a dog's head This was a proverbial expression among the Hebrews to denote whatever was deemed worthless and contemptible. Something similar to this was the answer of the Turkish commander at Ber, on the Euphrates, to a request made to see the castle. `Do they,' said he, `take me for a child, or {an ass's head}, that they would feed me with sweet meats, and dupe me with a bit of cloth? No, they shall not see the castle.'
2 Samuel 9:8 And he bowed himself, and said, What is your servant, that you should …
2 Samuel 16:9 Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah to the king, Why should this …
Deuteronomy 23:18 You shall not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into …
1 Samuel 24:14,15 After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom do you pursue? …
2 Kings 8:13 And Hazael said, But what, is your servant a dog, that he should …
so shew
2 Samuel 2:9,18 And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, …
2 Samuel 5:2 Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, you were he that led …
1 Samuel 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as …
Psalm 2:1-4 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing…
Isaiah 37:23 Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? and against whom have you …
Acts 9:4,5 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, …
So do God to Abner, and more also, except, as the LORD hath sworn to David, even so I do to him;
So do God
2 Samuel 3:35 And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it …
2 Samuel 19:13 And say you to Amasa, Are you not of my bone, and of my flesh? God …
Ruth 1:17 Where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do …
1 Samuel 3:17 And he said, What is the thing that the LORD has said to you? I pray …
1 Samuel 14:44 And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for you shall surely die, Jonathan.
1 Samuel 25:22 So and more also do God to the enemies of David…
1 Kings 19:2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods …
as the Lord
1 Samuel 3:17 And he said, What is the thing that the LORD has said to you? I pray …
1 Samuel 14:44 And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for you shall surely die, Jonathan.
1 Samuel 25:22 So and more also do God to the enemies of David…
1 Kings 19:2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods …
as the Lord
1 Samuel 15:28 And Samuel said to him, The LORD has rent the kingdom of Israel from …
1 Samuel 16:1-13 And the LORD said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing …
1 Samuel 28:17 And the LORD has done to him, as he spoke by me: for the LORD has …
1 Chronicles 12:23 And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the …
Psalm 89:3,4,19,20,35-37 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant…
To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.
And he could not answer Abner a word again, because he feared him.
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 thee, to bring about all Israel unto thee.
Whose
2 Samuel 19:6 In that you love your enemies, and hate your friends. For you have …
2 Samuel 20:1-13 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, …
Make
Psalm 62:9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a …
Luke 16:5-8 So he called every one of his lord's debtors to him, and said to …
my hand
2 Samuel 3:21,27 And Abner said to David, I will arise and go, and will gather all …
2 Samuel 5:1-3 Then came all the tribes of Israel to David to Hebron, and spoke, …
2 Samuel 19:14,41-43 And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the heart …
2 Samuel 20:1,2 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, …
1 Chronicles 11:1-3 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, Behold, …
Matthew 21:8-10 And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others …
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 face.
that is [heb] saying
Thou shalt
Genesis 43:3 And Judah spoke to him, saying, The man did solemnly protest to us, …
Genesis 44:23,26 And you said to your servants, Except your youngest brother come …
except
As Michal was not divorced, but violently separated from David, he had a legal demand to her, and was justified in receiving her again. It is probable, also, that her marriage with Phaltiel was a force upon her inclinations; and whatever affections he might have for her, it was highly criminal for him to take another man's wife. David required Michal probably out of affection for her, and to strengthen his interest, by asserting his affinity with the house of Saul.
Michal
2 Samuel 3:20-23 So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David …
1 Samuel 18:20-28 And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the …
1 Samuel 19:11-17 Saul also sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to …
1 Chronicles 15:29 And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came …
And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
And Ishbosheth sent, and took her from her husband, even from Phaltiel the son of Laish.
And her husband went with her along weeping behind her to Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him, Go, return. And he returned.
along weeping [heb] going and weeping
Proverbs 9:17,18 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant…
Bahurim
2 Samuel 16:5 And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, there came out a man …
2 Samuel 17:18 Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both …
2 Samuel 19:16 And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which was of Bahurim, hurried …
1 Kings 2:8 And, behold, you have with you Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim…
And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, Ye sought for David in times past to be king over you:
in times past [heb] both yesterday and third day
Now then do it: for the LORD hath spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.
for the Lord
2 Samuel 3:9 So do God to Abner, and more also, except, as the LORD has sworn …
1 Samuel 13:14 But now your kingdom shall not continue: the LORD has sought him …
1 Samuel 15:28 And Samuel said to him, The LORD has rent the kingdom of Israel from …
1 Samuel 16:1,12,13 And the LORD said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing …
John 12:42,43 Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but …
By the hand
Psalm 89:3,4,19-23 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant…
Psalm 132:17,18 There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp …
And Abner also spake in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and that seemed good to the whole house of Benjamin.
So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made Abner and the men that were with him a feast.
And Abner said unto David, I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make a league with thee, and that thou mayest reign over all that thine heart desireth. And David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.
And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came from pursuing a troop, and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner was not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in peace.
When Joab and all the host that was with him were come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he hath sent him away, and he is gone in peace.
Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone?
What hast Joab and his brother Abishai, David's nephews, had been very faithful and highly useful to him in his distresses; and, from gratitude and natural affection, he had inadvertently permitted them to assume almost as much ascendancy over him as Abner had over the pusillanimous Ishbosheth: he trusted and feared them too much, and allowed them all the importance they claimed; which had emboldened them, especially Joab, to a high degree of presumption.
2 Samuel 3:8,39 Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, …
2 Samuel 19:5-7 And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, You have shamed …
Numbers 23:11 And Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I took you to …
John 18:35 Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests …
Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou doest.
that he came
2 Samuel 3:27 And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the …
2 Kings 18:32 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land …
John 7:12,47 And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for …
Romans 2:1 Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are that judge: …
and to know
2 Samuel 10:3 And the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, …
Genesis 42:9,12,16 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said …
Numbers 27:17 Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and …
Deuteronomy 28:6 Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
1 Samuel 29:4-6 And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes …
Psalm 121:8 The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in from this …
Isaiah 37:28 But I know your stayed, and your going out, and your coming in, and …
And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, which brought him again from the well of Sirah: but David knew it not.
And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
took him
2 Samuel 20:9,10 And Joab said to Amasa, Are you in health, my brother? And Joab took …
Deuteronomy 27:24 Cursed be he that smites his neighbor secretly. And all the people …
1 Kings 2:5,32 Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and …
quietly. or, peaceably
Jeremiah 41:2 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him…
Jeremiah 6:7 As a fountain casts out her waters, so she casts out her wickedness: …
and smote Joab was afraid that Abner, after rendering such essential service to David, would be made the general of the army; and therefore, under pretence of avenging the death of his brother, he treacherously assassinated the unsuspecting and too-confiding Abner: and such was the power of this cold-blooded and nefarious murderer, that the king dared not bring him to justice for his crime. But, while Joab's conduct cannot be too severely reprobated, the justice of God is apparent in Abner's punishment; who, from ambition, had pertinaciously, against his conscience, opposed the declared will of God; and was induced by base resentment to desert Ish-bosheth, and offer his services to David.
2 Samuel 3:6-10 And it came to pass, while there was war between the house of Saul …
2 Samuel 4:6 And they came thither into the middle of the house, as though they …
for the blood
2 Samuel 2:19-23 And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the …
And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner:
Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.
rest
1 Samuel 1:16 Count not your handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the …
Judges 9:24,56,57 That the cruelty done to the three score and ten sons of Jerubbaal …
1 Kings 2:31-34 And the king said to him, Do as he has said, and fall on him, and …
Acts 28:4 And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, …
Revelation 16:6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have …
let there
1 Samuel 2:32-36 And you shall see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which …
2 Kings 5:27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall stick to you, and to your seed for ever…
Psalm 109:8-19 Let his days be few; and let another take his office…
fail [heb] be cut off
an issue
Leviticus 13:44-46 He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him …
2 Kings 5:1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great …
So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
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.
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 fell but little objection to the ceremony.
Rend
2 Samuel 1:2,11 It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out …
Genesis 37:29,34 And Reuben returned to the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the …
Joshua 7:6 And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before …
Judges 11:35 And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and …
2 Kings 19:1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his …
bier [heb] bed
Luke 7:14 And he came and touched the bier: and they that bore him stood still. …
And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.
And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?
as a fool dieth That is, as a bad man, as the word frequently signifies in Scripture
2 Samuel 13:12,13,28,29 And she answered him, No, my brother, do not force me; for no such …
Proverbs 18:7 A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
Ecclesiastes 2:15,16 Then said I in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so it happens …
Jeremiah 17:11 As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets …
Luke 12:19,20 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have much goods laid up for …
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.
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.
Judges 16:21 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him …
Psalm 107:10,11 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in …
wicked men [heb] children of iniquity
Job 24:14 The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and …
Hosea 6:9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests …
wept
2 Samuel 1:12 And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and …
And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.
cause
1 Samuel 12:17 Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call to the LORD, and he shall …
Jeremiah 16:7 Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort …
Ezekiel 24:17,22 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of your …
So do
2 Samuel 3:9 So do God to Abner, and more also, except, as the LORD has sworn …
Ruth 1:17 Where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do …
till the
2 Samuel 1:12 And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and …
Judges 20:26 Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and …
And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.
For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.
And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the LORD shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.
I am
Exodus 21:12 He that smites a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
2 Chronicles 19:6,7 And said to the judges, Take heed what you do: for you judge not …
Psalm 75:10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of …
Psalm 101:8 I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off …
Proverbs 20:8 A king that sits in the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.
Proverbs 25:5 Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be …
weak [heb] tender
1 Chronicles 22:5 And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house …
Isaiah 7:4 And say to him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted …
Romans 13:4 For he is the minister of God to you for good. But if you do that …
the sons
1 Chronicles 2:15,16 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh…
too hard
2 Samuel 19:6,7,13 In that you love your enemies, and hate your friends. For you have …
the Lord
1 Kings 2:5,6,33,34 Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and …
Psalm 7:16 His mischief shall return on his own head, and his violent dealing …
Psalm 28:4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness …
Psalm 62:12 Also to you, O Lord, belongs mercy: for you render to every man according …
2 Timothy 4:14 Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according …
