SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:17
Y hubo aquel día una batalla muy recia, donde Abner y los varones de Israel fueron vencidos de los siervos de David.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 17. And there was a very sore battle that day , etc.] When the twenty four men fell together, and no decision could be made thereby, or any triumph on either side, both armies drew up in battle array, and fought very furiously: and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David ; the army under him had the worst of it, and were routed, and obliged to flee before the army of David under the command of Joab.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 8-17 - The nation in general refused David. By this the Lord trained up his servant for future honour and usefulness; and the tendency of tru godliness was shown in his behaviour while passing through variou difficulties. David was herein a type of Christ, whom Israel would no submit to, though anointed of the Father to be a Prince and a Saviou to them. Abner meant, Let the young men fight before us, when he said Let them play before us: fools thus make a mock at sin. But he is unworthy the name of a man, that can thus trifle with human blood.
Original Hebrew
ותהי 1961 המלחמה 4421 קשׁה 7186 עד 5704 מאד 3966 ביום 3117 ההוא 1931 וינגף 5062 אבנר 74 ואנשׁי 376 ישׂראל 3478 לפני 6440 עבדי 5650 דוד׃ 1732
