2 Samuel 3:20

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Abner kom til David i Hebron med tyve mann, og David gjorde et gjestebud for Abner og de menn som var med ham.

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  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

David: Genesis 26:30, Genesis 31:54, Esther 1:3

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:8 - feast 2 Samuel 3:13 - Michal 1 Chronicles 12:17 - If ye be come

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him,.... Before he went privately to him, and conferred with him, but now, having gained so many of the Israelites in favour of David, he appeared more publicly and brought perhaps some of the principal of the nation with film, to join in the league and covenant to be made:

and David made Abner and the men that [were] with him a feast; not only in honour to them, as great personages, especially Abner, and as expressive of reconciliation; but as a token of the covenant they were entering into, and for the confirmation of it; it being usual to have feasts when covenants were made; see Genesis 26:28.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Twenty men - These were doubtless his official suite as Ish-bosheth’s envoy to conduct Michal to David, but privy and consenting to his intrigue with David. It is remarkable that not a word should be said about the meeting of David and Michal.