2 Samuel 3:12
And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose is the land? [And] saying, Make thy league with me, and, behold, my hand shall be with thee to bring about all Israel to thee.
A Conservative Version
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In Context
11And he could not answer Abner another word because he feared him.
Cross References
2 Samuel 3:27And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
2 Samuel 5:1Then all the tribes of Israel came to David to Hebron, and spoke, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
2 Samuel 19:14And he inclined the heart of all the men of Judah, even as [the heart of] one man, so that they sent to the king, [saying], Return thou, and all thy servants.
1 Chronicles 11:1Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
Psalms 62:9Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than vanity.
Luke 16:5And having summoned each one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first, How much do thou owe to my lord?
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 3:8-22
Abner Deserts to David. ( b. c. 1048.) 7 And Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ishbosheth said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine? 8 Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman?… Read the whole commentary →