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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

撒母耳记下 3:12

押尼珥投誠大衛押尼珥差派使者代表他去見大衛,說:“這地是屬誰的呢?”又說:“你與我立約,我就必幫助你,使全以色列都歸順你。”

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Abner;   Conspiracy;   Ish-Bosheth;   Treason;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Michal;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Abner;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ishbosheth ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Dwelling;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Alliances;   Ish-Bo'sheth;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Covenant, in the Old Testament;   Joab;   Telem (1);   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Abner;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Covenant;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
押 尼 珥 打 发 人 去 见 大 卫 , 替 他 说 : 这 国 归 谁 呢 ? 又 说 : 你 与 我 立 约 , 我 必 帮 助 你 , 使 以 色 列 人 都 归 服 你 。

Contextual Overview

7 Saul once had a slave woman named Rizpah, who was the daughter of Aiah. Ish-Bosheth said to Abner, "Why did you have sexual relations with my father's slave woman?" 8 Abner was very angry because of what Ish-Bosheth said, and he replied, "I have been loyal to Saul and his family and friends! I didn't hand you over to David. I am not a traitor working for Judah! But now you are saying I did something wrong with this woman! 9 May God help me if I don't join David! I will make sure that what the Lord promised does happen! 10 I will take the kingdom from the family of Saul and make David king of Israel and Judah, from Dan to Beersheba!" 11 Ish-Bosheth couldn't say anything to Abner, because he was afraid of him. 12 Then Abner sent messengers to ask David, "Who is going to rule the land? Make an agreement with me, and I will help you unite all Israel." 13 David answered, "Good! I will make an agreement with you, but I ask you one thing. I will not meet with you unless you bring Saul's daughter Michal to me." 14 Then David sent messengers to Saul's son Ish-Bosheth, saying, "Give me my wife Michal. She was promised to me, and I killed a hundred Philistines to get her." 15 So Ish-Bosheth sent men to take Michal from her husband Paltiel son of Laish. 16 Michal's husband went with her, crying as he followed her to Bahurim. But Abner said to Paltiel, "Go back home." So he went home.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Whose: 2 Samuel 19:6, 2 Samuel 20:1-13

Make: Psalms 62:9, Luke 16:5-8

my hand: 2 Samuel 3:21, 2 Samuel 3:27, 2 Samuel 5:1-3, 2 Samuel 19:14, 2 Samuel 19:41-43, 2 Samuel 20:1, 2 Samuel 20:2, 1 Chronicles 11:1-3, 1 Chronicles 12:38-40, Matthew 21:8-10

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 3:38 - a prince 2 Samuel 8:15 - over all Israel

Cross-References

Genesis 2:18
Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is right for him."
Genesis 2:20
The man gave names to all the tame animals, to the birds in the sky, and to all the wild animals. But Adam did not find a helper that was right for him.
Genesis 2:22
The Lord God used the rib from the man to make a woman, and then he brought the woman to the man.
Genesis 3:13
Then the Lord God said to the woman, "How could you have done such a thing?" She answered, "The snake tricked me, so I ate the fruit."
Genesis 3:15
I will make you and the woman enemies to each other. Your descendants and her descendants will be enemies. One of her descendants will crush your head, and you will bite his heel."
Genesis 3:20
The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.
Genesis 3:21
The Lord God made clothes from animal skins for the man and his wife and dressed them.
Genesis 3:24
After God forced humans out of the garden, he placed angels and a sword of fire that flashed around in every direction on its eastern border. This kept people from getting to the tree of life.
Job 31:33
I have not hidden my sin as others do, secretly keeping my guilt to myself.
Proverbs 19:3
People's own foolishness ruins their lives, but in their minds they blame the Lord .

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf,.... On his own account, and not on the account of Ishbosheth, or the people of Israel; but to obtain terms for himself, or in his own name, as representing him and standing in his stead; or secretly, as Kimchi explains it, unknown to Ishbosheth, or the people of Israel. The Targum is,

"out of his place;''

he sent them from the place where he was, from Mahanaim:

saying, whose [is] the land? the land of Israel, is it not thine, David? verily it is; to whom does it belong but unto thee, to whom the Lord has given it? not to any of Saul's posterity: this he ordered the messengers to say in the first place, in order to ingratiate himself to David, and gain his messengers an audience. The Targum is,

"I swear by him that made the earth;''

so Jarchi says, it is an oath by him whose the earth is, even by the living God, whose is the earth, and the fulness thereof:

saying [also], make thy league with me; he desired to enter into a covenant of friendship with him, that everything that had passed might be forgiven and forgotten:

and, behold, my hand [shall be] with thee, to bring about all Israel unto thee: he promises on his part to do his utmost to bring all Israel under his government and to obedience to him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Whose is the land? - Meaning, Is not the land thine by God’s promise?


 
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