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2 Samuel 3:37

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So on that day all the troops and all Israel were convinced that the king had no part in the murder of Abner son of Ner.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.

KJV

For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.

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This verse in 2 Samuel 3

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

if I taste bread or anything else before the sun sets

on 2 Samuel 3:35-37

David fasts until sundown and swears the self-cursing oath, “May God punish me, and ever so severely”. All Israel “were convinced that the king had no part in the murder of Abner son of Ner”. Charles Spurgeon preached the episode in his sermon The King Can Do No Wrong.

This site's exposition

the king had no part in the murder

John Gill notes that all Israel understood it that same day. The northern tribes had lost the commander who was bringing them to David, and they cleared David of his death. Charles Spurgeon holds that David neither ordered the crime nor could have prevented it.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

David's Wives and Children. 1 Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker. 2 And unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), of which he was solicitous to avoid the suspicion, lest Joab's villany should make him odious, as that of Simeon and Levi did Jacob, Gen. xxxiv. On this occasion it is said, Whatever the king did pleased all the people.

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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.

  • וַיֵּדְע֧וּand they knew

    vaiyedeuH3045 →945 times

  • כָל־all

    khol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָעָ֛םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • בַּיּ֣וֹםon the day

    baiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • הַה֑וּא<the> that

    hahu'H1931 →1879 times

  • כִּ֣יthat

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • לֹ֤אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • הָיְתָה֙it was

    hayetahH1961 →3559 times

  • מֵֽהַמֶּ֔לֶךְfrom the king

    mehamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • לְהָמִ֖יתto kill

    lehamitH4191 →839 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • אַבְנֵ֥רAbner

    ʾavnerH74 →63 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • נֵֽר׃ פNer

    nerH5369 →17 times

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

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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 Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Charles Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2420, The King Can Do No Wrong; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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