2 Samuel 3:12
Abner therefore sent messengers to David for himself, saying: Whose is the land? and that they should say: Make a league with me, and my hand shall be with thee: and I will bring all Israel to thee.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
11And he could not answer him a word, because he feared him.
Cross References
2 Samuel 3:27And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside to the middle of the gate, to speak to him treacherously: and he stabbed him there in the groin, and he died, in revenge of the blood of Asael his brother.
2 Samuel 5:1Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron, saying: Behold we are thy bone and thy flesh.
2 Samuel 19:14And be inclined the heart of all the men of Juda, as it were of one man: and they sent to the king, saying: Return thou, and all thy servants.
1 Chronicles 11:1Then all Israel gathered themselves to David in Hebron, saying: We are thy bone, and thy flesh.
Psalms 62:9Trust in him, all ye congregation of people: pour out your hearts before him. God is our helper for ever.
Luke 16:5Therefore calling together every one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first: How much dost thou owe 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 →