Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Samuel 3:37
For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.
37. all the people and all Israel ] Not only David’s own subjects in Judah, but the people of the northern kingdom, who must have been specially aggrieved by the murder of their hero, recognised the sincerity of David’s grief, and acquitted him of all complicity in the act. If, as seems probable ( 2Sa 3:26), Joab had abused the king’s authority in order to bring Abner back, it was doubly necessary for David emphatically to repudiate the act, lest he should have been thought to have had some part in instigating it.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Not done by his design or good will.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
For all the people and all Israel understood that day,…. Not the people of Judah only, but of Israel also, to whom the knowledge of these things came; they knew and were satisfied by his conduct and behaviour, by his words and actions:
that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner; it was not by the counsel or advice of the king, as the Targum; it was without his knowledge and consent, was contrary to his mind and will; that he had no manner of concern in it, and that if it had been in his power he would have prevented it.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
2Sa 3:37 For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.
Ver. 37. That it was not of the king. ] This was the end that David aimed at, and attained unto, in the carriage of the whole business. Prudence is usually prosperous.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Reciprocal: 2Sa 16:7 – bloody man 1Ki 2:32 – my father 1Ch 27:21 – Abner