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2 Samuel 3:22

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Just then David’s soldiers and Joab returned from a raid, bringing with them a great plunder. But Abner was not with David in Hebron because David had sent him on his way in peace.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came from a foray, and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner was not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in peace.

KJV

And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came from pursuing a troop, and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner was not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in peace.

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Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

brought in a great spoil with them

on 2 Samuel 3:22-25

Joab returns from a raid to find the man who killed his brother Asahel already fed and dismissed under David's own safe conduct, and his question to the king, what hast thou done, is an accusation dressed as concern. JFB reads Joab's stated fear, that Abner came to deceive thee, as cover for two motives the narrator names plainly enough elsewhere: the blood feud from 2:23 and a general's fear of losing his place to a rival commander. Nothing in Joab's speech to David answers David's welcome of Abner; it only reinterprets it.

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.
And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came from pursuing a troop,....

The words behind it

19 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.

  • וְהִנֵּה֩and there!

    vehinehH2009 →843 times

  • עַבְדֵ֨י[the] servants of

    ʾavdeiH5650 →799 times

  • דָוִ֤דDavid

    davidH1732 →999 times

  • וְיוֹאָב֙and Joab

    veyoavH3097 →144 times

  • בָּ֣א[was] coming

    ba'H935 →2568 times

  • מֵֽהַגְּד֔וּדfrom the raid

    mehagedudH1416 →33 times

  • וְשָׁלָ֥לand plunder

    veshalalH7998 →73 times

  • רָ֖בmuch

    ravH7227 →454 times

  • עִמָּ֣םwith them

    ʾimamH5973 →1050 times

  • הֵבִ֑יאוּthey had brought

    heviuH935 →2568 times

  • וְאַבְנֵ֗רand Abner

    veavnerH74 →63 times

  • אֵינֶ֤נּוּnot he

    ʾeinenuH369 →789 times

  • עִם־[was] with

    ʾim-H5973 →1050 times

  • דָּוִד֙David

    davidH1732 →999 times

  • בְּחֶבְר֔וֹןin Hebron

    bechevronH2275 →72 times

  • כִּ֥יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • שִׁלְּח֖וֹhe had sent away him

    shilechoH7971 →845 times

  • וַיֵּ֥לֶךְand he had 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.

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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.
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; 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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