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Selected Verse: 2 Samuel 3:29 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Sa 3:29 |
King James |
Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread. |
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| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The curse of David proves that Joab was not justified as blood-revenger or Goel Sa2 3:27 in taking away Abner's life.
That leaneth on a staff - Rather, a crutch. The phrase denotes one lame or infirm. For similar instances of hereditary disease and poverty as a punishment of great sin, see Sa1 2:31-33, Sa1 2:36; Kg2 5:27; Joh 9:2. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Let it, &c. - But would not a resolute punishment of the murderer himself have become David better, than this passionate imprecation on his posterity? |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Let it rest on the head - All these verbs may be rendered in the future tense: it will rest on the head of Joab, etc. This was a prophetic declaration, which sufficiently showed the displeasure of God against this execrable man. |
2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
36 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.
31 Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house.
32 And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever.
33 And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.
27 And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.