2 Samuel 2:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Asahel went running after Abner, not turning to the right or to the left.

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  • Josh 1:7 : 7 Only take heart and be very strong; take care to do all the law which Moses my servant gave you, not turning from it to the right hand or to the left, so that you may do well in all your undertakings.
  • Josh 23:6 : 6 So be very strong to keep and do whatever is recorded in the book of the law of Moses, not turning away from it to the right or to the left;
  • 2 Sam 2:21 : 21 And Abner said, Then go to the right or to the left and put your hands on one of the fighting-men and take his arms. But Asahel would not be turned away from going after Abner.
  • 2 Kgs 22:2 : 2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of David his father, without turning to the right hand or to the left.
  • Prov 4:27 : 27 Let there be no turning to the right or to the left, keep your feet from evil.

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  • 2 Sam 2:20-25
    6 verses
    89%

    20 Then Abner, looking back, said, Is it you, Asahel? And he said, It is I.

    21 And Abner said, Then go to the right or to the left and put your hands on one of the fighting-men and take his arms. But Asahel would not be turned away from going after Abner.

    22 Then again Abner said to Asahel, Go to one side, do not keep on coming after me: why will you make me put an end to you? for then I will be shamed before your brother Joab.

    23 But still he did not go to one side: so Abner gave him a back blow in the stomach with his spear, so that the spear came out at his back; and he went down on the earth, wounded to death: and all those who came to the place where Asahel went down dead, came to a stop.

    24 But Joab and Abishai went after Abner: and the sun went down when they came to the hill of Ammah, which is to the east of the road through the waste land of Geba.

    25 And the men of Benjamin came together after Abner in one band, and took their places on the top of a hill.

  • 2 Sam 2:17-18
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    81%

    17 And there was hard fighting that day; and Abner and the men of Israel gave way before the servants of David.

    18 There were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab and Abishai and Asahel: and Asahel was as quick-footed as a roe of the fields.

  • 2 Sam 2:27-32
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    27 And Joab said, By the living God, if you had not given the word, the people would have gone on attacking their countrymen till the morning.

    28 So Joab had a horn sounded, and all the people came to a stop, and gave up going after Israel and fighting them.

    29 And all that night Abner and his men went through the Arabah; they went over Jordan and through all Bithron and came to Mahanaim.

    30 And Joab came back from fighting Abner: and when he had got all his men together, it was seen that nineteen of David's men, in addition to Asahel, were not with them.

    31 But David's men had put to death three hundred and sixty of the men of Benjamin and of Abner's men

    32 And they took Asahel's body and put it in the last resting-place of his father in Beth-lehem. And Joab and his men, travelling all night, came to Hebron at dawn.

  • 2 Sam 3:30-31
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    75%

    30 So Joab and Abishai his brother put Abner to death, because he had put to death their brother Asahel in the fight at Gibeon.

    31 And David said to Joab and all the people who were with him, Go in grief and put haircloth about you, in sorrow for Abner. And King David went after the dead body.

  • 2 Sam 3:22-27
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    22 Now the servants of David and Joab had been out attacking a band of armed men, and they came back with a great store of goods taken in the fight: but Abner was no longer in Hebron with David, for he had sent him away and he had gone in peace.

    23 When Joab and his men came, news was given them that Abner, the son of Ner, had come to the king, who had let him go away again in peace.

    24 Then Joab came to the king, and said, What have you done? when Abner came to you why did you send him away and let him go?

    25 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?

    26 And when Joab had come out from David, he sent men after Abner, and they overtook him at the water-spring of Sirah, and made him come back with them: but David had no knowledge of it.

    27 And when Abner was back in Hebron, Joab took him on one side by the doorway of the town to have a word with him quietly, and there he gave him a wound in the stomach, causing his death in payment for the death of his brother Asahel.

  • 2 Sam 20:13-14
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    70%

    13 When he had been taken off the road, all the people went on after Joab in search of Sheba, the son of Bichri.

    14 And Sheba went through all the tribes of Israel, to Abel of Beth-maacah; and all the Bichrites came together and went in after him.

  • Isa 41:3
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    3 He goes after them safely, not touching the road with his feet.

  • 2 Sam 2:12
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    12 And Abner, the son of Ner, with the servants of Saul's son Ish-bosheth, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

  • 2 Chr 20:32
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    32 He went in the ways of his father Asa, not turning away, but doing right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • 1 Chr 2:16
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    16 And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And Zeruiah had three sons: Abishai and Joab and Asahel.

  • 2 Sam 20:10-11
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    69%

    10 But Amasa did not see danger from the sword which was now in Joab's left hand, and Joab put it through his stomach so that his inside came out on to the earth, and he did not give him another blow. So Joab and his brother Abishai went on after Sheba, the son of Bichri.

    11 And one of Joab's young men, taking his place at Amasa's side, said, Whoever is for Joab and for David, let him go after Joab!

  • 2 Sam 20:6-7
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    6 And David said to Abishai, Sheba, the son of Bichri, will do us more damage than Absalom did; so take some of your lord's servants and go after him, before he makes himself safe in the walled towns, and gets away before our eyes.

    7 So there went after Abishai, Joab and the Cherethites and the Pelethites and all the fighting-men; they went out of Jerusalem to overtake Sheba, the son of Bichri.

  • 2 Sam 3:9
    68%

    9 May God's punishment be on Abner, if I do not for David as the Lord in his oath has said,

  • Prov 4:27
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    27 Let there be no turning to the right or to the left, keep your feet from evil.

  • Ps 18:37
    68%

    37 I go after my haters and overtake them; not turning back till they are all overcome.

  • 2 Sam 14:29
    68%

    29 Then Absalom sent for Joab to send him to the king, but he would not come to him: and he sent again a second time, but he would not come.

  • 2 Sam 14:19
    67%

    19 And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with you in all this? And the woman in answer said, By the life of your soul, my lord the king, it is not possible for anyone to go to the right hand or to the left from anything said by the king: your servant Joab gave me orders, and put all these words in my mouth:

  • 1 Chr 19:14-15
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    67%

    14 So Joab and the people who were with him went forward into the fight against the Aramaeans, and they went in flight before him.

    15 And when the children of Ammon saw the flight of the Aramaeans, they themselves went in flight from Abishai, his brother, and came into the town. Then Joab came back to Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 27:7
    67%

    7 The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel, the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

  • 2 Chr 13:19
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    19 And Abijah went after Jeroboam and took some of his towns, Beth-el with its small towns and Jeshanah with its small towns and Ephron with its small towns.

  • 2 Chr 34:2
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    2 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of his father David, without turning to the right hand or to the left.

  • 2 Sam 3:16
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    16 And her husband went with her as far as Bahurim, weeping while he went. Then Abner said to him, Go back. And he went back.

  • 2 Kgs 18:6
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    6 For his heart was fixed on the Lord, not turning from his ways, and he did his orders which the Lord gave to Moses.

  • 2 Sam 18:14
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    14 Then Joab said, I would have made it safe for you. And he took three spears in his hand, and put them through Absalom's heart, while he was still living, in the branches of the tree.

  • Josh 8:17
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    17 There was not a man in Ai and Beth-el who did not go out after Israel; and the town was open and unwatched while they went after Israel.

  • 2 Sam 2:8
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    8 Now Abner, the son of Ner, captain of Saul's army, had taken Saul's son Ish-bosheth over to Mahanaim,

  • 2 Sam 23:24
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    24 Asahel, the brother of Joab, was one of the thirty; and Elhanan, the son of Dodai, of Beth-lehem,

  • 1 Sam 30:10
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    10 And David, with four hundred men, went on: but two hundred of them were overcome with weariness, and not able to go across the stream.

  • 2 Sam 18:30
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    30 And the king said, Get back and take your place here. So turning to one side, he took his place there.