2 Samuel 3:12-29
land <0776> [Whose.]
<03772> [Make.]
can <03027> [my hand.]
said <0559> [that is. Heb. saying. Thou shalt.]
face ............ visit <06440> [except.]
As Michal was not divorced, but violently separated from David, he had a legal right to demand 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 both out of affection for her, and to strengthen his interest, by asserting his affinity with the house of Saul.
Michal <04324> [Michal.]
Ish-bosheth <0378> [Ish-bosheth.]
[and hundred.]
Paltiel <06409> [Phaltiel.]
[Phalti.]
went ................ Go <01980> [along weeping. Heb. going and weeping.]
Bahurim <0980> [Bahurim.]
wanting <08543 08032> [in times past. Heb. both yesterday and the third day.]
Lord <03068> [for the Lord.]
hand ............ from ..... from <03027> [By the hand.]
Benjaminites .................... Benjamin <01144> [Benjamin.]
David .... David <01732> [David.]
gather <06908> [will gather.]
rule <04427 05315> [reign over.]
done <06213> [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.
came <0935> [that he came.]
know ................. determine ........... discover <03045> [and to know.]
sent <07971> [he sent.]
aside <05186> [took him.]
privately <07987> [quietly. or, peaceably.]
stabbed <05221> [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 cool-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: see ver. 6-10; 4:6.
blood <01818> [for the blood.]
innocent <05355> [guiltless.]
blood <01818> [blood. Heb. bloods.]
blood whirl <02342> [rest.]
cease <03772> [let there.]
cease <03772> [fail. Heb. be cut off. an issue.]
