King James Version
2 Samuel 3:37 in the King James Version says “For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.” — study this verse from 2 Samuel chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.”
2 Samuel 3:37 · KJV
And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.
And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people. pleased them: Heb. was good in their eyes
For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.
And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the LORD shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness. weak: Heb. tender
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“understood”
H3045to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“For all the people”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“and all Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“that day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“the son”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
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