To eat meat ... - Fasting was a sign of the deepest mourning (2 Samuel 1:12). The fast lasted until the sun had set.

To eat meat. —The fasting of David in his grief had already attracted attention, so that the people came to urge him to take food;…

And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while
it was yet day

The cu…

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 …