2 Samuel 3:9
So now may God punish me severely if I don't help David achieve what the Lord has promised him.
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In The King James Version
So do God to Abner, and more also, except, as the LORD hath sworn to David, even so I do to him;
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Cross References
Ruth 1:17Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord punish me harshly if I let anything but death separate us!”
1 Samuel 14:44Saul said, “May God punish me very severely if you do not die, Jonathan!”
1 Samuel 16:1The Lord asked Samuel, “How long are you going to continue to mourn over Saul because I have rejected him as king of Israel? Fill your flask with olive oil and go. I'm sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have chosen a king for myself from among his sons.”
1 Samuel 28:17“The Lord has done to you exactly what he said through me, for the Lord has ripped the kingdom from you and has given it to your neighbor, David.
2 Samuel 19:13Tell Amasa, ‘Aren't you my flesh and blood too? May God punish me very severely if from now on you're not the commander of my army instead of Joab!’”
1 Kings 2:23Then King Solomon vowed before the Lord, “May God punish me, really punish me, if what Adonijah has asked for doesn't cost him his life.
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 →