You know Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do.
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You know Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do.
Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou doest.
You know Abner, the son of Ner, that he came to deceive you and to know your going out and your coming in and to know all that you are doing!”
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
You know Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do.
Surely you realize that Abner son of Ner came to deceive you and to track your movements and all that you are doing.”
Surely you realize that Abner son of Ner came to deceive you and to track your movements and all that you are doing.”
Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou doest.
Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou doest.
Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou doest.
Thou knowest Abner the sonne of Ner: for he came to deceiue thee, and to knowe thy outgoing and ingoing, and to knowe all that thou doest.
Knowest thou not Abner the son of Ner, that to this end he came to thee, that he might deceive thee, and to know thy going out, and thy coming in, and to know all thou dost?
Thou hast known Abner son of Ner, that to deceive thee he came, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou art doing.'
You have known Abner son of Ner, that he came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you are doing.”
Do you not know that Abner son of Ner came to deceive you and to discover your plans and learn everything you are doing?”
You know Abner, the son of Ner, that he came to deceive you and to know your going out and your coming in and to know all that you are doing!”
Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou doest.
You know Abner the son of Ner. He came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do.”
Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going-out and thy coming-in, and to know all that thou doest.
You do see that Abner, son of Ner, came here to trick you, to spy on the movements of your army, and to find out everything you're doing!”
Is it not clear to you that Abner, the son of Ner, came with deceit to get knowledge of your going out and your coming in and of all you are doing?
Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou doest.'
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is מבואך entrance H4126 — appearing just 3 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
Shared distinctive vocabulary
מבואך entrance H4126 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 30 words from the Hebrew and 35 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 20 Hebrew tokens and 27 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
יָדַ֨עְתָּ֙ אֶת אַבְנֵ֣ר בֶּן נֵ֔ר כִּ֥י לְפַתֹּתְךָ֖ בָּ֑א וְלָדַ֜עַת אֶת מוֹצָֽאֲךָ֙ וְאֶת מבואך מ֣וֹבָאֶ֔ךָ וְלָדַ֕עַת אֵ֛ת כָּל אֲשֶׁ֥ר אַתָּ֖ה עֹשֶֽׂה
You know Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do.
World English Bible · Public Domain
ἤ οὐ οἶδα ὁ κακία αβεννηρ υἱός νηρ ὅτι ἀπατάω σύ παραγίγνομαι καί γιγνώσκω ὁ ἔξοδος σύ καί ὁ εἴσοδος σύ καί γιγνώσκω ἅπας ὅσος σύ ποιέω
Know you not the mischief of Abenner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all things that you do?
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, John Gill's Exposition discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
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יְדַעְתָּא יַת אַבְנֵר בַּר נֵר אֲרֵי לְאַטְעֲיוּתָךְ אֲתָא וּלְמִידַע יַת מִיפְקָךְ וְיַת מֵיעָלָךְ וּלְמֵידַע יַת כָּל דְאַתְּ עֲבֵיד:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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2 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 20 words (14 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is môwbâʼ (“entrance”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Samuel 3:25 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.