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Our chapter is largely concerned with Abner. We have learned previously that he was the cousin of King Saul and the commander-in-chief of his army (14:50, 20:25). Abner first supports the House of Saul, now led by Saul\u2019s son, Ish-Boshet. But Ish-Boshet accuses Abner of having intimate relations with Rizpah, one of Saul\u2019s concubines, suggesting that Abner was seeking to succeed Saul also to his throne.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Abner denies that this is his intention, saying: \u201cAm I a dog\u2019s head from Judah? Here I have been loyally serving the House of your father Saul…yet this day you reproach me over a woman! May God do thus and more to Abner if I do not do for David as the Lord swore to him \u2014 to transfer the kingship from the House of Saul, and to establish the throne of David over Israel and Judah…\u201d (3:8-10). Abner then sends messengers to David, indicating that he is now willing to come over to David\u2019s side. David replies: \u201cDo not appear before me unless you bring Michal daughter of Saul when you come before me.\u201d David also sent messengers to Ish-Boshet, son of Saul, to say, \u201cGive me my wife Michal, for whom I paid the bride-price of one hundred Philistine foreskins.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So Ish-Boshet sent and had her taken away from [her] husband, Paltiel son of Laish. Her husband walked with her, weeping as he followed her. When, later, Abner is murdered at the Gate of Hebron by Joab, David\u2019s commander-in-chief, David walks behind Abner\u2019s bier in his funeral procession and intones a lament beginning \u201cShould Abner have died the death of a churl?\u201d (verse 33).<\/span><\/p>\n

The Rabbis regard Abner as a learned saint, even referring to him as a \u201clion in the Torah\u201d (see Bereshit Rabbah 82:4, Rashi to Psalms 57:5). For this reason, the Sages feel obliged to explain why Abner should have been killed in such a brutal way: Because Abner put his own name before David\u2019s (2 Samuel 3:12). Because he made a plaything of the young men’s blood (2 Samuel 2:14). Because he did not wait for Saul to be reconciled with David (I Samuel 26:14). And finally, because he did not protest Saul\u2019s slaughter of the priests of Nob (I Samuel 22:17).<\/span><\/p>\n

As stated in our chapter (verse 32), Abner was buried where he was murdered in Hebron. His burial site later becomes a saint\u2019s grave, according to medieval Jewish tradition, near the Cave of Machpela, the tomb of the Patriarchs. This saint\u2019s grave continues to be visited by the faithful from medieval times until today.<\/span><\/p>\n

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