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3:17 \u201cAnd Abner parlayed with the elders of Israel, saying \u2018Time and again in the past you sought to have David become king over you.\u201d\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Commentary: The idiom for \u201ctimes gone by,\u201d <\/span>temol<\/span> shilshom<\/span><\/em> (literally, \u201cyesterday and the day before\u201d) is reinforced by the emphatic adverb <\/span>gam<\/span><\/em>, repeated before each of the two components of the idiom, probably as an indication of repeated acts in times past. Most commentators refer the idea of Israel\u2019s wanting David as king to his immense popularity during his early military successes (1 Samuel 18). But there was no intimation then that the people wanted to replace Saul with David on the throne. The suggestion of repeated popular support for David\u2019s claims might well point to an otherwise unreported undercurrent of dissatisfaction with the house of Saul and an interest in going over to David as a result of the losing civil war, if it is not Abner\u2019s own diplomatic invention.<\/span><\/p>\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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