2 Samuel 2:12

Romanian Cornilescu Translation

Abner, fiul lui Ner, şi oamenii lui Iş-Boşet, fiul lui Saul, au ieşit din Mahanaim ca să meargă asupra Gabaonului.

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am 2951, bc 1053, An, Ex, Is, 438

Mahanaim: 2 Samuel 17:14, Genesis 32:2

Gibeon: Joshua 9:3, Joshua 10:2, Joshua 10:4, Joshua 10:12, Joshua 18:25

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 2:29 - Mahanaim 2 Kings 10:3 - fight for

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Abner the son of Ner,.... Who was before captain of Saul's host, and now of Ishbosheth's:

and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul; who seem to be not only his domestic servants, that waited upon him, or his courtiers, but his whole army by what follows:

went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon; came from the city on the other side Jordan, where perhaps they had been two years past, concerting schemes to bring all Israel under the government of Ishbosheth; in which they had succeeded, only Judah stood out with David; and in order to reduce that tribe, they passed over Jordan and came to Gibeon, a city in Benjamin. See Joshua 18:25.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This expedition to Gibeon may have been for the purpose of shifting his metropolis to his own tribe of Benjamin, and to his family place, “Gibeah of Saul,” close to Gibeon, with the further purpose of attacking the kingdom of David. “To go out” 2 Samuel 2:12-13 is a technical phrase for going out to war 1 Samuel 18:30.