2 Samuel 2:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

And there was a very fierce battle that day; and Abner was defeated, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.

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  • 2 Sam 3:1 : 1 Now there was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David. But David grew stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.

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  • 2 Sam 2:29-31
    3 verses
    79%

    29And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain, crossed over Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and came to Mahanaim.

    30And Joab returned from pursuing Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, nineteen of David's servants and Asahel were missing.

    31But the servants of David had struck Benjamin, and Abner's men, so that three hundred and sixty men died.

  • 2 Sam 3:30-31
    2 verses
    78%

    30So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

    31And David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, Tear your clothes and gird yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And King David himself followed the bier.

  • 2 Sam 18:6-8
    3 verses
    78%

    6So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim;

    7Where the people of Israel were defeated before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.

    8For the battle was scattered over the face of all the country: and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

  • 2 Sam 2:12-16
    5 verses
    77%

    12And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

    13And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met by the pool of Gibeon: and they sat down, one on one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.

    14And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise and compete before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.

    15Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, belonging to Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.

    16And they grabbed every one his opponent by the head, and thrust his sword into his opponent's side; so they fell together: wherefore that place was called Helkathhazzurim, which is in Gibeon.

  • 2 Sam 2:21-25
    5 verses
    76%

    21And Abner said to him, Turn aside to your right hand or to your left, and take hold of one of the young men, and take his armor. But Asahel would not turn aside from following him.

    22And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn aside from following me: why should I strike you to the ground? How could I face Joab your brother?

    23But he refused to turn aside: therefore Abner struck him with the back end of the spear under the fifth rib, so the spear came out behind him; and he fell there and died on the spot: and as many as came to the place where Asahel fell and died stood still.

    24Joab also and Abishai pursued Abner: and the sun went down when they came to the hill of Ammah, that is before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.

    25And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together behind Abner, and became one group, and stood on the top of a hill.

  • 2 Sam 3:6
    75%

    6And it came to pass, while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong for the house of Saul.

  • 2 Sam 3:37-38
    2 verses
    75%

    37For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not the king's doing to kill Abner the son of Ner.

    38And the king said to his servants, Do you not know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?

  • 1 Sam 17:57
    73%

    57When David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

  • 2 Sam 2:8
    73%

    8But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's army, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;

  • 2 Sam 4:1
    73%

    1And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were weak, and all the Israelites were troubled.

  • 1 Chr 19:17
    73%

    17And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and crossed over Jordan, and came upon them and set the battle in array against them. So when David had set the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.

  • 2 Sam 3:22-23
    2 verses
    72%

    22And behold, the servants of David and Joab came from pursuing a troop, and brought in a great spoil with them. But Abner was not with David in Hebron, for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.

    23When Joab and all the host that was with him had come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has sent him away, and he is gone in peace.

  • 2 Sam 2:18
    72%

    18And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab and Abishai and Asahel: and Asahel was as fleet of foot as a wild gazelle.

  • 1 Sam 19:8
    72%

    8And there was war again; and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him.

  • 1 Sam 14:20
    72%

    20Then Saul and all the people with him assembled and went into battle; and behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was very great confusion.

  • 2 Sam 21:17
    72%

    17But Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, came to his aid and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then David's men swore to him, saying, You shall no more go out with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel.

  • 2 Sam 3:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19And Abner also spoke in the ears of Benjamin. And Abner went to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and that seemed good to the whole house of Benjamin.

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

  • 2 Sam 21:15
    71%

    15Moreover, the Philistines had war again with Israel. And David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines; and David grew faint.

  • 2 Sam 10:17
    71%

    17And when it was told to David, he gathered all Israel together, crossed over Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians set themselves in array against David, and fought with him.

  • 2 Sam 3:26-27
    2 verses
    71%

    26And when Joab had gone out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, who brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David did not know it.

    27And when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there under the fifth rib, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

  • 1 Kgs 2:32
    71%

    32And the Lord will return his blood upon his own head, who struck down two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, my father David not knowing of it: namely, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

  • 1 Sam 31:3
    71%

    3The battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was critically wounded by the archers.

  • 2 Sam 18:15
    71%

    15And ten young men who carried Joab's armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.

  • 1 Sam 26:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7So David and Abishai came to the people by night, and there lay Saul sleeping within the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; but Abner and the people lay around him.

    8Then Abishai said to David, "God has delivered your enemy into your hand this day. Now, therefore, let me strike him with the spear to the ground with one stroke, and I will not strike him a second time."

  • 1 Sam 26:15
    71%

    15And David said to Abner, "Are you not a valiant man? And who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord the king? For there came one of the people in to destroy the king your lord."

  • 2 Sam 3:1
    71%

    1Now there was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David. But David grew stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.

  • 2 Sam 3:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8Then Abner was very angry for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head, that against Judah I show kindness this day unto the house of Saul your father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David, that you charge me today with a fault concerning this woman?

    9God do so to Abner, and more also, unless, as the LORD has sworn to David, even so I do to him;

  • 1 Sam 17:19
    70%

    19Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel were in the Valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

  • 1 Chr 19:14
    70%

    14So Joab and the people that were with him drew near before the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him.

  • 2 Sam 3:17
    70%

    17And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, You sought for David in times past to be king over you.

  • 2 Sam 20:6
    70%

    6And David said to Abishai, Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom did; take your master’s servants and pursue him, lest he find fortified cities and escape from us.