OLD TESTAMENT

2 Samuel 3:9

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God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as the LORD has sworn to David, I don’t do even so to him:

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Verse 9. Sworn. It seems therefore that he knew of God’s appointment, and had hitherto resisted it for his own temporal convenience. Bible.—If both he and Isboseth were ignorant of this decree, Abner had no right to deprive the latter of the crown. Abulensis, q. 7. Menochius.

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