Let it rest on the head of Joab,.... That is, the blood of Abner, who was the shedder of it; let the guilt of it be charged to him, and let punishment for it be inflicted on him:and on all his father's house; on Abishai his brother, and other relations that might be privy to the death of Abner, and advising to it, and ready to assist in it if necessary:and let there not fail from the house of Joab; let there be always in his family, and of his seed, one or other of the persons described as follows:one that hath an issue; a gonorrhoea, which was reckoned infamous, and very impure, according to the Jewish law, and rendered persons unfit for society; see Le 15:1;or that is a leper; whose disease was very loathsome and infectious, and shut him out of the company of men; see Le 13:1;or that leaneth on a staff; being blind, as Aquila renders the word; or through weakness of body, not being able to walk without one; or through some disease of the feet, as the Jewish writers generally understand it; and R.
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2 Samuel 3:29
2 Samuel 3:29
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