3:8 These words of Ish-bosheth really angered Abner and he said, “Am I the head of a dog that belongs to Judah? This very day I am demonstrating 1 loyalty to the house of Saul your father and to his relatives 2 and his friends! I have not betrayed you into the hand of David. Yet you have accused me of sinning with this woman today! 3 3:9 God will severely judge Abner 4 if I do not do for David exactly what the Lord has promised him, 5 3:10 namely, to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and to establish the throne of David over Israel and over Judah all the way from Dan to Beer Sheba!”
1 tn Heb “I do.”
2 tn Heb “brothers.”
3 tn Heb “and you have laid upon me the guilt of the woman today.”
4 tn Heb “So will God do to Abner and so he will add to him.”
5 tc Heb “has sworn to David.” The LXX, with the exception of the recension of Origen, adds “in this day.”