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2 Samuel 3:23

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When Joab and all his troops arrived, he was informed, “Abner son of Ner came to see the king, who sent him on his way in peace.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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This verse in 2 Samuel 3

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

returned from a raid, bringing with them a great plunder

on 2 Samuel 3:22-25

Joab returns to find the man who killed his brother Asahel feasted and sent off in peace. His question, “What have you done?”, is an accusation, and he claims that Abner “came to deceive you”. The narrator gives Joab's ground at verse 27, the blood of Asahel shed at 2:23.

This site's exposition

When Joab and all his troops arrived

The report to Joab says a third time that Abner left in peace. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown note the blood feud Joab had carried since Abner killed his brother Asahel at 2:23. Joab hears the name of that man first.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

My wife - Who, though she was taken from me by force, and constrained to marry another, yet is my rightful wife. David demands her, both for the affection he still retained to her, and upon a political consideration that she might strengthen his title to the kingdom.
When Joab and all the host that was with him were come,....

The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְיוֹאָ֛בand Joab

    veyoavH3097 →144 times

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • הַצָּבָ֥אthe army

    hatzava'H6635 →485 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • אִתּ֖וֹ[was] with him

    ʾitoH854 →929 times

  • בָּ֑אוּthey came

    bauH935 →2568 times

  • וַיַּגִּ֤דוּand people told

    vaiyagiduH5046 →370 times

  • לְיוֹאָב֙to Joab

    leyoavH3097 →144 times

  • לֵאמֹ֔ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • בָּֽא־he came

    ba'-H935 →2568 times

  • אַבְנֵ֤רAbner

    ʾavnerH74 →63 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • נֵר֙Ner

    nerH5369 →17 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַמֶּ֔לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • וַֽיְשַׁלְּחֵ֖הוּand he has sent away him

    vayshalechehuH7971 →845 times

  • וַיֵּ֥לֶךְand he has gone

    vaiyelekhH1980 →1546 times

  • בְּשָׁלֽוֹם׃in peace

    beshalomH7965 →236 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Samuel

David Mourns the Death of Absalom, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
David Mourns the Death of Absalom, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
2 Samuel: the study guide →Read 2 Samuel 3 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.

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