2 Samuel 3:28

28 Algún tiempo después, David se enteró de esto y declaró: «Hago constar ante el SEÑOR, que mi reino y yo somos totalmente inocentes de la muerte de Abner hijo de Ner.

2 Samuel 3:28 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 3:28

And afterward, when David heard [it]
That Joab had sent to fetch Abner back, and that he had stabbed him in the gate of the city, and he was dead; it was some time after it was done that the news of it was brought to David; this circumstance is observed, the more to clear the king from any concern in this affair:

he said;
in a public manner, in open court, before all his princes; he called God to witness, and, as Josephus ^F9 says, stretching out his right hand to God, he cried aloud:

I and my kingdom [are] guiltless before the Lord for ever from the
blood of Abner the son of Ner;
he was sensible it would be known that Abner had been with him, and that Joab his general had killed him; and therefore it might be suspected that he had an hand in it, and that it was done by his order, with his privy council; and therefore, to purge him and them from it, he made this public declaration, that neither he nor his council knew anything of it; and that it was not done with their knowledge and consent, and by their order, but through the resentment of a single person; and therefore hoped that no man would impute the shedding of this blood unto them, or that God would punish them for it; and he was the rather led to make this public declaration, because he knew that the death of Abner in this way would be resented by the friends of Saul's family, and be an obstruction to the union of the two kingdoms, which it was known Abner was endeavouring to bring about.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 Antiqu. l. 7. c. 1. sect. 6.

2 Samuel 3:28 In-Context

26 En cuanto Joab salió de hablar con David, envió mensajeros tras Abner, los cuales lo hicieron volver del pozo de Sira. Pero de esto Joab no le dijo nada a David.

27 Cuando Abner regresó a Hebrón, Joab lo llevó aparte a la entrada de la ciudad, como para hablar con él en privado. Allí lo apuñaló en el vientre, y Abner murió. Así Joab se vengó de la muerte de su hermano Asael.

28 Algún tiempo después, David se enteró de esto y declaró: «Hago constar ante el SEÑOR, que mi reino y yo somos totalmente inocentes de la muerte de Abner hijo de Ner.

29 ¡Los responsables de su muerte son Joab y toda su familia! ¡Que nunca falte en la familia de Joab alguien que sufra de hemorragia o de lepra, o que sea cojo, o que muera violentamente, o que pase hambre!»

30 Joab y su hermano Abisay asesinaron a Abner porque en la batalla de Gabaón él había matado a Asael, hermano de ellos.