2Sa 3:30-39 - Commentary

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Text -- 2 Samuel 3:30-39 (NET)

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3:30 So Joab and his brother Abishai killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel in Gibeon during the battle. 3:31 David instructed Joab and all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes! Put on sackcloth! Lament before Abner!” Now King David followed behind the funeral bier. 3:32 So they buried Abner in Hebron. The king cried loudly over Abner’s grave and all the people wept too. 3:33 The king chanted the following lament for Abner: “Should Abner have died like a fool? 3:34 Your hands were not bound, and your feet were not put into irons. You fell the way one falls before criminals.” All the people wept over him again. 3:35 Then all the people came and encouraged David to eat food while it was still day. But David took an oath saying, “God will punish me severely if I taste bread or anything whatsoever before the sun sets!” 3:36 All the people noticed this and it pleased them. In fact, everything the king did pleased all the people. 3:37 All the people and all Israel realized on that day that the killing of Abner son of Ner was not done at the king’s instigation. 3:38 Then the king said to his servants, “Do you not realize that a great leader has fallen this day in Israel? 3:39 Today I am weak, even though I am anointed as king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too much for me to bear! May the Lord punish appropriately the one who has done this evil thing!”

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Names, People and Places:

· Abishai the son of Zeruiah, David's sister; brother of Joab

· Abner a man of Benjamin in Saul and David's time

· Asahel son of Zeruiah, David's sister; brother of Joab,a Levite assigned to teach in Judah under Jehoshaphat,a Levite assistant to the temple treasurer under Hezekiah,father of Jonathan who opposed Ezra's policies

· David a son of Jesse of Judah; king of Israel,son of Jesse of Judah; king of Israel

· Gibeon a town of Benjamin pioneered by Jeiel of Benjamin

· Hebron a valley and town of Judah 25 km west of the dead sea,son of Kohath son of Levi,son of Mareshah of Judah

· Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel

· Joab son of Zeruiah, David's sister; commander of King David's army,son of Seraiah son of Kenaz of Judah; grand nephew of Caleb of Moses' time,a man whose descendants returned from exile in Babylon,ancestor of a family group who returned from exile headed by Obadiah the son of Jehiel

· Ner a man of Benjamin; father of Kish, the father of King Saul

· Zeruiah daughter of Jesse; sister of David; mother of Abishai, Asahel and Joab

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NET Notes: 2Sa 3:31 Heb “was walking.”

NET Notes: 2Sa 3:32 Heb “lifted up his voice and wept.” The expression is a verbal hendiadys.

NET Notes: 2Sa 3:34 4QSama lacks the words “all the people.”

NET Notes: 2Sa 3:35 Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”

NET Notes: 2Sa 3:36 Heb “it was good in their eyes.”

NET Notes: 2Sa 3:37 Heb “from the king.”

NET Notes: 2Sa 3:38 Heb “a leader and a great one.” The expression is a hendiadys.

NET Notes: 2Sa 3:39 Heb “May the Lord repay the doer of the evil according to his evil” (NASB similar).

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