John Gill Commentary 2 Samuel 3:24

"Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone?" — 2 Samuel 3:24 (ASV)

Then Joab came to the king
To the apartment where he was; perhaps he was told the above at his first entering into the king's palace, by some in waiting, before he came to the king, which filled him with wrath, so that he came to him in a passion:

and said to him, what have you done ?
which was very insolent in a subject to say to his prince:

behold, Abner came to you ;
I have been credibly informed of it, and am assured it is a fact which cannot be denied; he represents it as if he had done a wrong thing to admit him to come to him; but perhaps the great fault was that he had let him go:

why [is] it [that] you have sent him away, and he is quite gone ?
or "going, [is] gone" ^F5 ; is clean gone off, when he ought to have been laid hold on as a traitor, and put in irons.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F5: (Kwlh Klyw) "et abiit eundo", Pagninus, Montanus.