2 Samuel 3:35

35 Depois, quando o povo insistiu com Davi que comesse alguma coisa enquanto ainda era dia, Davi fez este juramento: “Deus me castigue com todo o rigor, caso eu prove pão ou qualquer outra coisa antes do pôr do 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 Então o rei cantou este lamento por Abner:“Por que morreu Abner como morrem os insensatos?

34 Suas mãos não estavam algemadasnem seus pés acorrentados.Você caiu como quem cai perante homens perversos”.E todo o povo chorou ainda mais por ele.

35 Depois, quando o povo insistiu com Davi que comesse alguma coisa enquanto ainda era dia, Davi fez este juramento: “Deus me castigue com todo o rigor, caso eu prove pão ou qualquer outra coisa antes do pôr do sol!”

36 Todo o povo ouviu isso e o aprovou; de fato, tudo o que o rei fazia o povo aprovava.

37 Assim, naquele dia, todo o povo e todo o Israel reconheceram que o rei não tivera participação no assassinato de Abner, filho de Ner.