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While there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner was making himself strong in the house of Saul. Now Saul had a concubine whose name was Rizpah daughter of Aiah. And Ishbaal[a] said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?” The words of Ishbaal[b] made Abner very angry; he said, “Am I a dog’s head for Judah? Today I keep showing loyalty to the house of your father Saul, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not given you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me now with a crime concerning this woman.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 3:7 Heb And he
  2. 2 Samuel 3:8 Gk Compare 1 Chr 8.33; 9.39: Heb Ish-bosheth, “man of shame”

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