34Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.
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Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron; …
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-39)We have here an account of the murder of Abner by Joab, and David’s deep resentment of it. I. Joab very insolently fell foul upon David for treating with Abner. He happened to be abroad upon service when Abner was with David, pursuing a troop, either of Philistines or of Saul’s party; but, upon his return, he was informed that Abner was just gone ( 2 Sam. 3:22 , 23 ), and that a great many kind th…
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