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2 Samuel 3:24

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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

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

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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This verse in 2 Samuel 3

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
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.

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

What have you done?

Joab comes to the king in person and puts two questions to him without waiting for an answer. Albert Barnes reads a man ready to act without scruple. Within three verses that readiness takes Abner’s life at the gate.

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.
Then Joab came to the king,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

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).

The words behind it

16 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.

  • וַיָּבֹ֤אand he went

    vaiyavo'H935 →2568 times

  • יוֹאָב֙Joab

    yoavH3097 →144 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַמֶּ֔לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • וַיֹּ֖אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • מֶ֣הwhat?

    mehH4100 →752 times

  • עָשִׂ֑יתָהhave you done

    ʾasitahH6213 →2628 times

  • הִנֵּה־here!

    hineh-H2009 →843 times

  • בָ֤אhe came

    va'H935 →2568 times

  • אַבְנֵר֙Abner

    ʾavnerH74 →63 times

  • אֵלֶ֔יךָto you

    ʾeleikhaH413 →5510 times

  • לָמָּה־<to> why?

    lamah-H4100 →752 times

  • זֶּ֥הthis

    zehH2088 →1180 times

  • שִׁלַּחְתּ֖וֹdid you send away him

    shilachtoH7971 →845 times

  • וַיֵּ֥לֶךְand he has gone

    vaiyelekhH1980 →1546 times

  • הָלֽוֹךְ׃completely <to go>

    halokhH1980 →1546 times

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

Related verses

7 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

John 18:35“Am I a Jew?” Pilate replied. “Your own people and chief priests handed You over to me. What have You done?”2 works2 Samuel 3:8Abner 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 his brothers, and to his friends. I have not delivered you into the hand of David, but now you accuse me of wrongdoing with this woman!2 worksNumbers 23:11Then 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!”2 works2 Samuel 3:39And 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!”2 works2 Samuel 19:5–7Then Joab went into the house and said to the king, “Today you have disgraced all your servants who have saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters, of your wives, and of your concubines.2 works1 Samuel 13:11“What have you done?” Samuel asked. And Saul replied, “When I saw that the troops were deserting me, and that you did not come at the appointed time and the Philistines were gathering at Michmash,2 works
The other 1 cross-references, with their words ▾
Genesis 3:13Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.”0 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    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!”

    it 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!”

    it 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…

    it 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?”

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