See also:

• ABNER (Hebrew for "father of [or is a] light ")

ABNER (See also:

• HEBREW

Hebrew for "See also:

• FATHER

father of [or is a] See also:

• LIGHT

light ")  , in the See also:

• BIBLE
• BIBLE, ENGLISH

Bible, first See also:

• COUSIN (Fr. cousin, Ital. cugino, Late Lat. cosinus, perhaps a popular and familiar abbreviation of consobrinus, which has the same sense in classical Latin)
• COUSIN, JEAN (1500-1590)
• COUSIN, VICTOR (1792–1867)

cousin of See also:

• SAUL (Heb. shd'ul, " asked ")

Saul and See also:

• COMMANDER

commander-in-See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief of his See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army (i Sam. xiv . 50, XX . 25) . He is only referred to incidentally in -Saul's See also:

• HISTORY

history (1 Sam. xvii . 55, See also:

• XXVI

xxvi . 5), and is not mentioned in the See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the disastrous See also:

• BATTLE

battle of Gilboa when Saul's See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power was crushed . Seizing. the only surviving son, Ishbaal, he set him up as See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king over See also:

• ISRAEL (Hebrew for " God strives " or " rules "; see Gen. xxxii. 28; and the allusion in Hosea xii. 4)

Israel at Mahanaim, See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east of the See also:

• JORDAN (the down-comer; Arab. esh-Sheri'a, the watering-place)
• JORDAN, CAMILLE (1771—1821)
• JORDAN, DOROTHEA (1762—1816)
• JORDAN, THOMAS (1612 ?–1685)
• JORDAN, WILHELM (1819–1904)

Jordan . See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

David, who was accepted as king by See also:

• JUDAH

Judah alone, was mean-while reigning at See also:

• HEBRON (mod. Khulzl er-Rahman, i.e. " the friend of the Merciful One "—an allusion to Abraham)

Hebron, and for some See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war was carried on between the two parties . The only engagement between the See also:

• RIVAL

rival factions which is told at. length is noteworthy, inasmuch as it was preceded by an encounter at See also:

• GIBEON

Gibeon between twelve chosen men from each See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side, in which the whole twenty-four seem to have perished (2 Sam. ii . 12).1 In the See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general engagement which followed, See also:

• ABNER (Hebrew for "father of [or is a] light ")

Abner was defeated and put to See also:

• FLIGHT

flight . He was closely pursued by Asahel, See also:

• BROTHER

brother of See also:

• JOAB (Heb. " Yah [well] is a father ")

Joab, who is said to have been " See also:

• LIGHT

light of See also:

• FOOT

foot as a See also:

• WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild See also:

• ROE (or Row), SIR THOMAS (c. 1581—1644)
• ROE, EDWARD PAYSON (1838-1888)

roe." . As Asahel would not desist from the pursuit, though warned, Abner was compelled to slay him in self-See also:

• DEFENCE
• DEFENCE (Lat. defendere, to defend)

defence .

This originated a deadly See also:

• FEUD

feud between the leaders of the opposite parties, for Joab, as next of See also:

• KIN (0. E. cyn, a word represented in nearly all Teutonic languages, cf. Du. kunne, Dan. and Swed. kon, Goth kuni, tribe; the Teutonic base is kunya; the equivalent Aryan root gan- to beget, produce, is seen in Gr. 'yEvos, Lat. genus, cf. "kind")

kin to Asahel, was by the See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law and. See also:

• CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom of the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country the avenger of his See also:

• BLOOD

blood . For some time. afterwards the war was carried on, the See also:

• ADVANTAGE

advantage being invariably on the side of David . At length Ishbaal lost the See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main prop of his tottering cause by remonstrating with Abner for marrying Rizpah, one of Saul's concubines, an See also:

• ALLIANCE

alliance which, according to See also:

• ORIENTAL

Oriental notions, implied pre-tensions to the See also:

• THRONE

throne (cp . 2 Sam. xvi . 21 sqq.; 1 See also:

• KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

Kings ii . 21 sqq.) . Abner was indignant at the deserved rebuke, and immediately opened negotiatons with David, who welcomed him on the See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition that his wife Michal should be restored to him . This was done, and the proceedings were ratified by a feast .. Almost immediately after, however, Joab, who had been sent away, perhaps intentionally returned and slew Abner at the See also:

• GATE

gate of Hebron . The ostensible See also:

• MOTIVE (from Lat. movere, to move)

motive for the assassinatio s was a See also:

• DESIRE

desire to avenge Asahel, and this would be a sufficient See also:

• JUSTIFICATION

justification for the See also:

• DEED (in O. Eng. dead, from the stem of the verb " to do ")

deed according to the moral See also:

• STANDARD
• STANDARD, BATTLE OF THE

standard of the-time . The conduct of David after the event was such as to show that he had no complicity in the See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act, though he could not venture to punish its perpetrators (2 Sam. iii . 3r-39; cp .

Y Kings ii . 31 seq.) .