1. 2 Samuel 3:18 (NEG79)
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What did Abner understand about the role of David?

2 Samuel 3:18 (NEG79)

18 établissez-le maintenant, car l'Eternel a dit de lui: C'est par David, mon serviteur, que je délivrerai mon peuple d'Israël de la main des Philistins et de la main de tous ses ennemis.

Abner considered David to be the king through whom the Lord would work to bring about rescue from the Philistines. Saul was meant to do this work (see 1 Samuel 9:16),1 and following his death it was a task to be given now to David.