2 Sam 3:8

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Abner.

Ps 76:10; Mark 6:18; Mark 6:19

Am I a dog's head.

This was a proverbial expression among the Hebrews to denote whatever was deemed worthless and contemptible. Something similar to this was the answer of the Turkish commander at Beer, on the Euphrates, to a request made to see the castle.

"Do they," said he, "take me for a child, or an ass's head, that they would feed me with sweet meats, and dupe me with a bit of cloth? No, they shall not see the castle."

2Sam 9:8; 2Sam 16:9; Deut 23:18; 1Sam 24:14; 1Sam 24:15; 2Kgs 8:13

do shew.

2Sam 3:9; 2Sam 3:18; 2Sam 5:2; 1Sam 15:28; Ps 2:1-4; Isa 37:23; Acts 9:4; Acts 9:5