2 Samuele 3:12

La Nuova Diodati

Allora Abner mand a nome suo messaggeri a Davide per dirgli: "A chi appartiene il paese? Fa alleanza con me e la mia mano sar con te per riportare tutto Israele a te".

Parallel Translations

Riveduta Bibbia
E Abner spedì tosto de’ messi a Davide per dirli: "A chi appartiene il paese?" e "Fa’ alleanza con me, e il mio braccio sarà al tuo servizio per volgere dalla tua parte tutto Israele".

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
Ed Abner mandò in quello stante dei messi a Davide, a dirgli: A cui appartiene il paese? Ed anche per dirgli: Patteggia meco, ed ecco, io mi giugnerò teco, per rivolgere a te tutto Israele.

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

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?