2 Samuel 3:12 BSB — MannaFest

2 Samuel 3:12

Then Abner sent messengers in his place to say to David, “To whom does the land belong? Make your covenant with me, and surely my hand will be with you to bring all Israel over to you.”

BSB

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf,.... On his own account, and not on the account of Ishbosheth, or the people of Israel; but to obtain terms for himself, or in his own name, as representing him and standing in his stead; or secretly, as Kimchi explains it, unknown to Ishbosheth, or the people of Israel.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

He sent messengers to David, to tell him that he was at his service. " Whose is the land? For thou hast the best title to the government and the best interest in the people's affections." Note, God can find out ways to make those serviceable to the kingdom of Christ who yet have no sincere affection for it and who have vigorously set themselves against it.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Abner sent messengers to David--Though his language implied a secret conviction, that in supporting Ish-bosheth he had been laboring to frustrate the divine purpose of conferring the sovereignty of the kingdom on David, this acknowledgment was no justification either of the measure he was now adopting, or of the motives that prompted it.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּשְׁלַח֩	vai.yish.Lach	and he sent	H7971 →
אַבְנֵ֨ר	'av.Ner	Abner	H74 →
מַלְאָכִ֧ים׀	mal.'a.Khim	messengers	H4397 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
דָּוִ֛ד	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
תַּחְתָּ֥יו	ta.cha.tov	in place of himself	H8478 →
לֵאמֹ֖ר	le.Mor	<to> saying	H559 →
לְמִי־	le.mi-	[belongs] to whom?	H4310 →
אָ֑רֶץ	'A.retz	[the] land	H776 →
לֵאמֹ֗ר	le.Mor	<to> saying	H559 →
כָּרְתָ֤ה	ka.re.Tah	make !	H3772 →
בְרִֽיתְךָ֙	ve.ri.te.Kha	covenant your	H1285 →
אִתִּ֔י	'i.Ti	with me	H854 →
וְהִנֵּה֙	ve.hi.Neh	and here!	H2009 →
יָדִ֣י	ya.Di	hand my	H3027 →
עִמָּ֔ךְ	'i.Makh	[will be] with you	H5973 →
לְהָסֵ֥ב	le.ha.Sev	to bring round	H5437 →
אֵלֶ֖יךָ	'e.Lei.kha	to you	H413 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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Psalms 62:9
Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
leads to
- Psalms 39:5
  You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
- Isaiah 40:15
  Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.
- Isaiah 40:17
  All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.
- Psalms 118:9
  It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes.
- Psalms 39:11
  You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
Through
2 Samuel 3:27
When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside into the gateway, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died on account of the…
leads to
- 1 Kings 2:5
  Moreover, you know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me—what he did to Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether, the two commanders of the armies of Israel. He killed them…
- 2 Samuel 20:9–10
  “Are you well, my brother?” Joab asked Amasa. And with his right hand Joab grabbed Amasa by the beard to kiss him.
- Deuteronomy 27:24
  ‘Cursed is he who strikes down his neighbor in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

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