Judg 16:21, 2Sa 3:6-8, 27, 12:9-11, 1Ki 11:1-2, Neh 13:26, Pro 6:33 | TSK | STEP | and put out. Heb. and bored out. bound him. grind.

Judges 16:21

and put out. Heb. and bored out.

Pr 5:22; 14:14; 2:19

bound him.

2Ki 25:7; 2Ch 33:11; Ps 107:10-12; 149:8

grind.

Ex 11:5; Isa 47:2; Mt 24:41

2 Samuel 3:6-8

Abner.

2:8,9; 2Ki 10:23; 2Ch 25:8; Pr 21:30; Isa 8:9,10; Joe 3:9-13

Mt 12:30

Rizpah.

21:8-11

Wherefore.This action of Abner's seems a most evident proof that he intended to seize on the government; and it was so understood by Ish-bosheth; see Parallel Texts.

gone in.

12:8; 16:21,22; 1Ki 2:17,21,22

Abner.

Ps 76:10; Mr 6:18,19

Am I a dog's head.This was a proverbial expression among the Hebrews to denote whatever was deemed worthless and contemptible. Something similar to this was the answer of the Turkish commander at Beer, on the Euphrates, to a request made to see the castle. "Do they," said he, "take me for a child, or an ass's head, that they would feed me with sweet meats, and dupe me with a bit of cloth? No, they shall not see the castle."

9:8; 16:9; De 23:18; 1Sa 24:14,15; 2Ki 8:13

do shew.

9,18; 5:2; 1Sa 15:28; Ps 2:1-4; Isa 37:23; Ac 9:4,5

2 Samuel 3:27

took him.

20:9,10; De 27:24; 1Ki 2:5,32

quietly. or, peaceably.

Jer 41:2,6,7

and smote.Joab was afraid that Abner, after rendering such essential service to David, would be made the general of the army; and therefore, under pretence of avenging the death of his brother, he treacherously assassinated the unsuspecting and too-confiding Abner: and such was the power of this cool-blooded and nefarious murderer, that the king dared not bring him to justice for his crime. But, while Joab's conduct cannot be too severely reprobated, the justice of God is apparent in Abner's punishment; who, from ambition, had pertinaciously, against his conscience, opposed the declared will of God; and was induced by base resentment to desert Ish-bosheth, and offer his services to David: see ver. 6-10; 4:6.

for the blood.

2:19-23

2 Samuel 12:9-11

despised.

10; 11:4,14-17; Ge 9:5,6; Ex 20:13,14; Nu 15:30,31; 1Sa 15:19,23

Isa 5:24; Am 2:4; Heb 10:28,29

to do evil.

2Ch 33:6; Ps 51:4; 90:8; 139:1,2; Jer 18:10

thou hast.

11:15-27

the sword.

13:28,29; 18:14,15,33; 1Ki 2:23-25; Am 7:9; Mt 26:52

because.

Nu 11:20; 1Sa 2:30; Mal 1:6,7; Mt 6:24; Ro 2:4; 1Th 4:8

hast taken.

Ge 20:3; Pr 6:32,33

I will raise.

13:1-14,28,29; 15:6,10

I will take.That is, in the course of my providence I will permit this to be done. Such phrases in Scripture do not mean that God either does or can do evil himself; but only that he permits such evil to be done as he foresaw would be done, and which, had he pleased, he might have prevented.

16:21,22; De 28:30; Eze 14:9; 20:25,26; Ho 4:13,14