2 Samuel 2:31

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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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.
  • 1 Kgs 20:11 : 11 And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not the one who girds on his armor boast himself like the one who takes it off.

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  • 2 Sam 2:29-30
    2 verses
    82%

    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.

  • 2 Sam 3:30-31
    2 verses
    79%

    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 2:15-17
    3 verses
    79%

    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.

    17And there was a very fierce battle that day; and Abner was defeated, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.

  • Judg 20:31
    75%

    31And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

  • Judg 20:39
    75%

    39And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle.

  • 2 Sam 2:32
    75%

    32And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was in Bethlehem. And Joab and his men traveled all night, and they came to Hebron at dawn.

  • 2 Sam 18:15
    75%

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

  • 2 Sam 2:22-25
    4 verses
    74%

    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 23:18
    74%

    18And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among the three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.

  • 2 Sam 3:26-28
    3 verses
    74%

    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.

    28And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD forever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner.

  • 2 Sam 18:7
    74%

    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.

  • 2 Sam 3:19-20
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

  • 1 Chr 11:20
    74%

    20And Abishai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the three. He lifted up his spear against three hundred men, slew them, and had a name among the three.

  • 2 Sam 3:22-23
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 2:31-32
    2 verses
    73%

    31And the king said unto him, Do as he has said, and strike him down and bury him, that you may take away the innocent blood which Joab shed, from me and from the house of my father.

    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.

  • 2 Sam 2:12
    73%

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

  • 2 Sam 19:17
    73%

    17And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over the Jordan before the king.

  • Judg 20:44-46
    3 verses
    72%

    44And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valor.

    45And they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon; and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.

    46So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valor.

  • 2 Sam 3:37-38
    2 verses
    72%

    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?

  • Judg 20:15
    71%

    15And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who numbered seven hundred chosen men.

  • Judg 20:25
    71%

    25And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

  • 2 Sam 4:12
    71%

    12And David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hung them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the tomb of Abner in Hebron.

  • 1 Chr 21:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5And Joab gave the total of the people to David. And all Israel were a million one hundred thousand men who drew sword: and Judah was four hundred and seventy thousand men who drew sword.

    6But he did not count Levi and Benjamin among them: for the king's word was detestable to Joab.

  • 2 Sam 3:33-34
    2 verses
    71%

    33And the king lamented over Abner and said, Did Abner die as a fool dies?

    34Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put into fetters. As a man falls before wicked men, so you fell. And all the people wept again over him.

  • 1 Sam 30:21
    71%

    21And David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had also made to stay at the brook Besor: and they went out to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he greeted them.

  • 1 Chr 12:29
    71%

    29Of the sons of Benjamin, the relatives of Saul, three thousand; for until that time, the most of them had maintained their allegiance to the house of Saul.

  • Judg 20:35
    71%

    35And the LORD struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men; all these drew the sword.

  • 2 Sam 3:9
    71%

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

  • 2 Sam 1:15
    70%

    15And David called one of the young men and said, Go near, and strike him. And he smote him that he died.

  • 2 Sam 13:30
    70%

    30And it came to pass, while they were on the way, that news came to David, saying, Absalom has slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left.

  • 2 Sam 8:5
    70%

    5And when the Syrians of Damascus came to aid Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand men of the Syrians.

  • 1 Sam 31:2
    70%

    2The Philistines pursued Saul and his sons, and they killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul's sons.

  • 1 Chr 11:11
    70%

    11And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains, who lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time.