1)

What is "Lehavros"?

1.

Rashi: It is an expression of a meal (the first meal a mourner eats after the burial).

2.

Radak: It is to feed even a small amount. Also below (13:6), it says "v'Evrah mi'Yadah."

2)

Why is it written Lehachros, and we pronounce it Lehavros?

1.

Radak citing Sanhedrin 20a: At first, they wanted to depose David/ When they realized that he had not told Yo'av to kill Avner], they came Lehavros (to give to him the first meal after the burial). Radak - some say so, but in all our texts it is written Lehavros.

3)

Why did David refuse to eat?

1.

Malbim: We fast over the death of Gedolim. David considered Avner to be great in Torah.

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