Joab killeth Abner.

BEFORE CHRIST about 1048.

1 Chron. 12. 29.

ver. 10, 12.

1 Kings 11. 37.

Isai. 37. 28.

will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.

19 And Abner also spake in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and that seemed good to the whole house of Benjamin.

20 So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made Abner and the men that were with him a feast.

21 And Abner said unto David, I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make a league with thee, and that thou mayest reign over all that thine heart desireth. And David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.

22 ¶ 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.

23 When Joab and all the host that was with him were come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he hath sent him away, and he is gone in

peace.

24 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?

25 Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive

1 Sam. 29. 6. thee, and to know "thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou doest.

David mourneth for him.

fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

28 And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD for ever from the 2 blood of Abner the son of Ner:

BEFORE CHRIST about

1048.

ch. 2. 23. Heb. bloods.

32, 33.

3 Heb. be cut off. b Lev. 15. 2.

29 Let it rest on the head of Joab, 1 Kings 2. and on all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.

30 So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

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c ch. 2. 23.

31 ¶ And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you Josh. 7. 6. with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.

32 And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.

33 And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?

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ch. 1. 2, 11. • Gen. 37. 34.

'Heb. bed.

fch. 13. 12, 13.

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34 Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fell- Heb. children est thou. And all the people wept again over him.

of iniquity.

Jer. 16. 7.

35 And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while ch. 12. 17. it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, 'till the sun be down.

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h Ruth 1. 17.

1 ch. 1. 12.

36 And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them: as what- Heb. was soever the king did pleased all the people.

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

38 And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?

good in their

eyes.

4 And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings 1 Sam. 29. 1, came of Saul and Jonathan fout of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was + Mephibosheth.

4 Or, Meribbaal.

1 Chron. 8. 34. & 9. 40.

6 ch. 2. 23.

5 And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ish-bosheth, who lay on a bed at noon.

6 And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth rib and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.

7 For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.

slay Ish-bosheth.

8 And they brought the head of Ish-bosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.

BEFORE CHRIST

about 1048.

1 Sam. 19. 2, 10, 11. & 23. 15. & 25. 29.

9 ¶ And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth, who 'Gen. 48. 16. hath redeemed my soul out of all

adversity,

1 Kings 1.29.

Ps. 31.7.

10 When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, 2 thinking to Heb. he was in have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would Or, which was have given him a reward for his tidings:

the reward I gave him for his tidings.

11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now 'require' Gen. 9. 5, 6. his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

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12 And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the "sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.

m ch. 1.15.

☐ ch. 3. 32.

a 1 Chron. 11. 1. & 12. 23.

HEN came all the tribes a of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are Gen. 29. 14. thy bone and thy flesh.

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2 Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he1 Sam. 18.18. that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee,

Thou shalt feed my people Israel,

d 1 Sam. 16. 1, 12.

Ps. 78.71.
See ch. 7.7.

David fetcheth the ark

CHAPTER VI. *

1 David fetcheth the ark from Kirjath-jearim on a new cart. 6 Uzzah is smitten at Perezuzzah. 9 God blesseth Obed-edom for the ark. 12 David bringing the ark into Zion with sacrifices, danceth before it, for which Michal despiseth him. 17 He placeth it in a tabernacle with great joy and feasting. 20 Michal reproving David for his religious joy is childless to her death.

AGAIN, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.

2 And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him from 2Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, 3whose name is called by the name of the LORD of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims.

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3 And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in 5 Gibeah and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart.

4 And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab which was at

1 Sam. 7. 1. Gibeah, 'accompanying the ark of God and Ahio went before the ark.

from Kirjath-jearim.]

10 So David would not remove the

ark of the LORD unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

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BEFORE CHRIST 1042.

1 Chron. 13. 13.

k 1 Chron. 13. 14.

11 *And the ark of the LORD continued in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months: and the LORD 'blessed Obed-edom, and all 1 Gen. 30. 27. his houshold.

& 39.5.

16 And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart. 17 ¶ And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.

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1 Chron. 15.

28.

1 Chron. 15.

29.

18 And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the 1 Kings 8. people in the name of the LORD of hosts. 19 And he dealt among all the 1 Chron. 16. & people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. So all the people departed every one to his house.