2 Samuel 3:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose is the land? saying also, Make thy league with me, and, behold, my hand shall be with thee, to bring about all Israel unto thee.

Whose

2 Samuel 19:6

2 Samuel 20:1

Make

Psalm 62:9

Luke 16:5

My hand

Matthew 21:8

Bible References

Whose

to love thine enemies, and to hate those loving thee, for thou hast declared to-day that thou hast no princes and servants, for I have known to-day that if Absalom were alive, and all of us to-day dead, that then it were right in thine eyes.

And there hath been called there a man of worthlessness, and his name is Sheba, son of Bichri, a Benjamite, and he bloweth with a trumpet, and saith, 'We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; each to his tents, O Israel.'

Make

Only -- vanity are the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up they than vanity are lighter.

'And having called near each one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first, How much dost thou owe to my lord?

My hand

And Abner saith unto David, 'I arise, and go, and gather unto my lord the king the whole of Israel, and they make with thee a covenant, and thou hast reigned over all that thy soul desireth;' and David sendeth away Abner, and he goeth in peace.

And all the tribes of Israel come unto David, to Hebron, and speak, saying, 'Lo, we are thy bone and thy flesh;

And he inclineth the heart of all the men of Judah as one man, and they send unto the king, 'Turn back, thou, and all thy servants.'

And gathered are all Israel unto David to Hebron, saying, 'Lo, thy bone and thy flesh are we;

All these are men of war, keeping rank -- with a perfect heart they have come to Hebron, to cause David to reign over all Israel, and also all the rest of Israel are of one heart, to cause David to reign,

and the very great multitude spread their own garments in the way, and others were cutting branches from the trees, and were strewing in the way,