2 Samuel 3:33-38
as a fool dieth That is, as a bad man, as the word frequently signifies in Scripture. 2Sam 13:12-13, 2Sam 13:28-29; Prov 18:7; Eccl 2:15-16; Jer 17:11; Luke 12:19-20 hands The hand of malefactors were usually secured with cords, and their feet with fetters; a custom to which David affectingly alludes in his lamentation over the dust of Abner. Thy hands, O Abner, were not bound, as found to be a malefactor, nor thy feet put in fetters; thou was treated with honour by him whose business it was to judge thee, and thy attachment to the house of Saul was esteemed rather generous than culpable. As the best of men may fall, so thou fellest by the sword of treachery, not of justice. Judg 16:21; Ps 107:10-11 wicked men Heb. children of iniquity, Job 24:14; Hos 6:9 wept 2Sam 1:12 cause 2Sam 12:17; Jer 16:7; Ezek 24:17, Ezek 24:22 So do 2Sam 3:9; Ruth 1:17 till the 2Sam 1:12; Judg 20:26 pleased them Heb. was good in their eyes as 2Sam 15:6, 2Sam 15:13; Ps 62:9; Mark 7:37, Mark 15:11-13 a prince 2Sam 3:12, 2Sam 2:8; 1Sam 14:50-51; Job 32:9
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