Text -- 2 Samuel 3:37-39 (NET)

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!”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 2Sa 3:37

¹ tn Heb “from the king.”

NET Notes: 2Sa 3:38

¹ tn Heb “a leader and a great one.” The expression is a hendiadys.

NET Notes: 2Sa 3:39

¹ tn Heb “are hard from me.”

² tn Heb “May the Lord repay the doer of the evil according to his evil” (NASB similar).