17Abner conferred with the elders of Israel and said, "For some time you have wanted to make David your king.
17Abner conferred with the elders of Israel and said, "For some time you have wanted to make David your king.
14 Then David sent messengers to Ish- Bosheth son of Saul, demanding, "Give me my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for the price of a hundred Philistine foreskins."
15 So Ish-Bosheth gave orders and had her taken away from her husband Paltiel son of Laish.
16 Her husband, however, went with her, weeping behind her all the way to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, "Go back home!" So he went back.
17 Abner conferred with the elders of Israel and said, "For some time you have wanted to make David your king.
18 Now do it! For the Lord promised David, 'By my servant David I will rescue my people Israel from the hand of the Philistines and from the hand of all their enemies.' "
19 Abner also spoke to the Benjamites in person. Then he went to Hebron to tell David everything that Israel and the whole house of Benjamin wanted to do.
3:17And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, Ye sought for David in times past [to be] king over you:
3:17Abner also spoke to the ancients of Israel, saying: Both yesterday and the day before you sought for David that he might reign over you.
3:17And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, In times past ye sought for David to be king over you:
3:17Now Abner had communicated with the elders of Israel, saying, Ye sought for David aforetime to be king over you;
3:17And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, In times past ye sought for David to be king over you:
3:17And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, Ye sought for David in times past to be king over you:
3:17Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, |In times past, you sought for David to be king over you.
3:17And the word of Abner was with the elders of Israel, saying, 'Heretofore ye have been seeking David for king over you,
3:17And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, You sought for David in times past to be king over you: