2 Samuel 2:30

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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

    32And 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.

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

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

    19Asahel went running after Abner, not turning to the right or to the left.

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

    21And 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.

    22Then 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.

    23But 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.

    24But 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.

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

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

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

  • 15So they got up and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin and Ish-bosheth and twelve of the servants of David.

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    26And 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.

    27And 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.

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    22Now 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.

    23When 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.

    24Then 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?

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    15And ten young men, servants of Joab, came round Absalom and put an end to him.

    16And Joab had the horn sounded, and the people came back from going after Israel, for Joab kept them back.

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

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

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

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

  • 23So Joab got up and went to Geshur and came back again to Jerusalem with Absalom.

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

  • 24And David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom, with all the men of Israel, went over Jordan.

  • 8And David, hearing of it, sent Joab with all the army of fighting-men.

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    6And 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.

    7So 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.

  • 21And David came to the two hundred men, who because of weariness had not gone with him, but were waiting at the stream Besor: and they went out, meeting David and the people who were with him; and when they came near them, they said, How are you?

  • 7The 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.

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

    15And 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.

  • 17And with him a thousand men of Benjamin, and Ziba, the servant of Saul, with his fifteen sons and twenty servants, came rushing to Jordan before the king,

  • 32And the Lord will send back his blood on his head, because of the attack he made on two men more upright and better than himself, putting them to the sword without my father's knowledge; even Abner, the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

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    9So David went, and his six hundred men went with him, and they came to the stream Besor.

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

  • 20So Abner, with twenty men, came to Hebron, to David. And David made a feast for Abner and the men who were with him.

  • 11And 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!

  • 30Now while they were on their way, news was given to David that Absalom had put to death all the sons of the king and that not one of them was still living.

  • 15And when David had sent destruction on Edom, and Joab, the captain of the army, had gone to put the dead into the earth, and had put to death every male in Edom;

  • 22So David and all the people who were with him went up over Jordan: when dawn came, every one of them had gone over Jordan.

  • 29Then 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.

  • 26And these were the great men of war: Asahel, the brother of Joab, Elhanan, the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem,

  • 4But the king's word was stronger than Joab's. So Joab went out and went through all Israel and came to Jerusalem.

  • 57And when David was coming back after the destruction of the Philistine, Abner took him to Saul, with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

  • 7And the people of Israel were overcome there by the servants of David, and there was a great destruction that day, and twenty thousand men were put to the sword.

  • 34After Ahithophel was Jehoiada, the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar; and the captain of the king's army was Joab.