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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

The MT here reads simply Abner. CTAT, however, suggests that the words “son of Ner” have been accidentally omitted from the text and recommends that translators include “son of Ner,” following the Septuagint and a manuscript from Qumran. But see the comments above on 3:23. At Hebron: the burial of Ishbosheth’s head took place in the same place where David was when the sons of Rimmon brought it to him, that is, in Hebron. The wording of the translation should not give the impression that Hebron was
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