2 Samuel 3:24 BSB — MannaFest

2 Samuel 3:24

So Joab went to the king and said, “What have you done? Look, Abner came to you. Why did you dismiss him? Now he is getting away!

BSB

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ASV

Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone?

KJV

Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone?

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Joab saw that if Abner was reconciled to David, his own post as second in the state would be forfeited; and then with characteristic unscrupulosity he proceeded to take Abner’s life.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

To these considerations was added the remembrance of the blood feud that existed between them since the death of his brother Asahel (2Sa 2:23).

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיָּבֹ֤א	vai.ya.Vo'	and he went	H935 →
יוֹאָב֙	yo.'Av	Joab	H3097 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ	ha.Me.lekh	the king	H4428 →
וַיֹּ֖אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
מֶ֣ה	meh	what?	H4100 →
עָשִׂ֑יתָה	'a.Si.tah	have you done	H6213 →
הִנֵּה־	hi.neh-	here!	H2009 →
בָ֤א	va'	he came	H935 →
אַבְנֵר֙	'av.Ner	Abner	H74 →
אֵלֶ֔יךָ	'e.Lei.kha	to you	H413 →
לָמָּה־	la.mah-	<to> why?	H4100 →
זֶּ֥ה	zeh	this	H2088 →
שִׁלַּחְתּ֖וֹ	shi.lach.To	did you send away him	H7971 →
וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ	vai.Ye.lekh	and he has gone	H1980 →
הָלֽוֹךְ׃	ha.Lokh	completely <to go>	H1980 →

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Numbers 23:11
Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you here to curse my enemies, and behold, you have only blessed them!”
leads to
- Nehemiah 13:2
  because they had not met the Israelites with food and water, but had hired Balaam to call down a curse against them (although our God had turned the curse into a blessing).
- Numbers 24:10
  Then Balak’s anger burned against Balaam, and he struck his hands together and said to Balaam, “I summoned you to curse my enemies, but behold, you have persisted in blessing them these three times.
- Numbers 23:7–8
  And Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘put a curse on Jacob for me; come and…
Through
2 Samuel 3:39
And I am weak this day, though anointed as king, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too fierce for me. May the LORD repay the evildoer according to his evil!”
leads to
- Psalms 28:4
  Repay them according to their deeds and for their works of evil. Repay them for what their hands have done; bring back on them what they deserve.
- Psalms 101:8
  Every morning I will remove all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off every evildoer from the city of the LORD.
- 1 Kings 2:33–34
  Their blood will come back upon the heads of Joab and his descendants forever; but for David, his descendants, his house, and his throne, there shall be peace from the LORD forever.”
- Psalms 62:12
  and loving devotion to You, O Lord. For You will repay each man according to his deeds.
Through
2 Samuel 3:8
Abner was furious over Ish-bosheth’s accusation. “Am I the head of a dog that belongs to Judah?” he asked. “All this time I have been loyal to the house of your father Saul, to…
leads to
- 2 Samuel 9:8
  Mephibosheth bowed down and said, “What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog like me?”

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