2 Samuel 3

2 Samuel 3:1

And took Pharaoh’s daughter, &c.

And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and took Pharaoh’s daughter to wife, upon her yielded conformity to that holy religion, which he professed.

2 Samuel 3:2

Only the people sacrificed in high places because there was no house built unto the name of the Lonn, until those days.

In the mean time, till the house of God was finished, wise and holy Solomon would not allow the people to sacrifice any other where, than in those high places, which his father had consecrated; that is, in Gibeon, where was the Tabernacle, and in Jerusalem, where the ark was.

2 Samuel 3:8

Am I a dog’s head?

Am I so base a person in thine eyes, that thou shouldst think fit to charge me in this challenging fashion?

2 Samuel 3:33

Died Abner as a fool dieth?

Did Abner die, as cowards or malefactors are wont to do?

2 Samuel 3:34

Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou.

Their hands use to be bound, and their feet fettered; and so they are forced to undergo a foreseen death: it was not so with thee, O Abner; thy hands and thy feet were free; as the valiantest man may be surprised by the violence of a wicked enemy, so wert thou surprised and slain.