Aside in the gate. —The gateway was a customary place of conference in the East, and Joab there awaited Abner’s return; he then to…

And when Abner was returned to Hebron
Alone, and not the twenty men with him; not to David's court, but just to the …

Judgments are prepared for such scorners as Abner; but Joab, in what he did, acted wickedly. David laid Abner's murder deeply to heart and in many …