2 Samuel 3:35

35 David rehusó comer el día del funeral y todos le suplicaban que comiera. Pero David había hecho el siguiente juramento: «Que Dios me castigue y aun me mate si como algo antes de que se ponga el sol».

2 Samuel 3:35 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 3:35

And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while
it was yet day
The custom was to bury in the daytime, and after the funeral was over to provide and send in food to the relations of the deceased, and come and eat with them; as was also the usage with the Greeks and Romans ^F23; (See Gill on Jeremiah 16:5) and (See Gill on Jeremiah 16:7); and kings themselves used to attend those feasts; for the Jews say ^F24,

``when they cause him (the king) to eat, all the people sit upon the ground, and he sits upon the bed;''

but in this case David refused to eat with them:

David sware, saying, so do God to me, and more also;
may the greatest evils, and such as I care not to mention, befall me; and even more and worse than I can think of and express:

if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down;
perhaps the funeral was in the morning, as funerals with the Jews generally now are; for otherwise if it was now towards evening, his abstinence from food till that time would not have seemed so much, nor required much notice, and still less an oath.

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 Vid. Kirchman. de Funer. Roman, l. 4. c. 5. & 6.
F24 Misn. ut supra. (Sanhedrin, c. 2. sect. 3.) David de Pomis ut supra. (Lexic. fol. 119. 4.)

2 Samuel 3:35 In-Context

33 Luego el rey cantó este canto fúnebre por Abner:
«¿Acaso tenía que morir Abner como mueren los necios?

34 Tus manos no estaban atadas;
tus pies no estaban encadenados.
No, fuiste asesinado,
víctima de un complot perverso».
Entonces todo el pueblo lloró nuevamente por Abner.

35 David rehusó comer el día del funeral y todos le suplicaban que comiera. Pero David había hecho el siguiente juramento: «Que Dios me castigue y aun me mate si como algo antes de que se ponga el sol».

36 Esto agradó mucho a los israelitas. De hecho, todo lo que el rey hacía les agradaba.

37 Así que todos en Judá y en Israel comprendieron que David no era responsable de la muerte de Abner.