Abner’s murder now leads to the bold murder of a son of Saul (Ishbosheth) by two men of his own tribe. They thought that this would be good news to David (as the man who told him that Saul and Jonathan were dead in chapter 1), so they even took the murdered man’s head to David. Again, the heart of David was misunderstood—It was not good news to hear that a righteous man was slain in his own bed (v. 11). How can we let our thoughts stray so far from right-thinking that we miss the truth of God and the evidence of the holy hearts of others so easily?
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