2 Samuel 2:31

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But David’s soldiers had slaughtered the Benjaminites and Abner’s men– in all, 360 men had died!

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 3:1 : 1 However, the war was prolonged between the house of Saul and the house of David. David was becoming steadily stronger, while the house of Saul was becoming increasingly weaker.
  • 1 Kgs 20:11 : 11 The king of Israel replied,“Tell him the one who puts on his battle gear should not boast like one who is taking it off.”

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  • 2 Sam 2:29-30
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    82%

    29Abner and his men went through the rift valley all that night. They crossed the Jordan River and went through the whole region of Bitron and came to Mahanaim.

    30Now Joab returned from chasing Abner and assembled all the people. Nineteen of David’s soldiers were missing, in addition to Asahel.

  • 2 Sam 3:30-31
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    79%

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

    31David instructed Joab and all the people who were with him,“Tear your clothes! Put on sackcloth! Lament before Abner!” Now King David followed behind the funeral pallet.

  • 2 Sam 2:15-17
    3 verses
    79%

    15So they got up and crossed over by number: twelve belonging to Benjamin and to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, and twelve from the servants of David.

    16As they grappled with one another, each one stabbed his opponent with his sword and they fell dead together. So that place is called the Field of Flints; it is in Gibeon.

    17Now the battle was very severe that day; Abner and the men of Israel were overcome by David’s soldiers.

  • Judg 20:31
    75%

    31The Benjaminites attacked the army, leaving the city unguarded. They began to strike down their enemy just as they had done before. On the main roads(one leads to Bethel, the other to Gibeah) and in the field, they struck down about thirty Israelites.

  • Judg 20:39
    75%

    39the Israelites counterattacked. Benjamin had begun to strike down the Israelites; they struck down about thirty men. They said,“There’s no doubt about it! They are totally defeated as in the earlier battle.”

  • 2 Sam 2:32
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    32They took Asahel’s body and buried him in his father’s tomb at Bethlehem. Joab and his men then traveled all that night and reached Hebron by dawn.

  • 2 Sam 18:15
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    15Then ten soldiers who were Joab’s armor bearers struck Absalom and finished him off.

  • 2 Sam 2:22-25
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    22So Abner spoke again to Asahel,“Turn aside from following me! I do not want to strike you to the ground. How then could I show my face in the presence of Joab your brother?”

    23But Asahel refused to turn aside. So Abner struck him in the abdomen with the back end of his spear. The spear came out his back; Asahel collapsed on the spot and died there right before Abner. Everyone who now comes to the place where Asahel fell dead pauses in respect.

    24So Joab and Abishai chased Abner. At sunset they came to the hill of Ammah near Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon.

    25The Benjaminites formed their ranks behind Abner and were like a single army, standing at the top of a certain hill.

  • 2 Sam 23:18
    74%

    18Abishai son of Zeruiah, the brother of Joab, was head of the three. He killed three hundred men with his spear and gained fame among the three.

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

    26Then Joab left David and sent messengers after Abner. They brought him back from the well of Sirah.(But David was not aware of it.)

    27When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate as if to speak privately with him. Joab then stabbed him in the abdomen and killed him, avenging the shed blood of his brother Asahel.

    28When David later heard about this, he said,“I and my kingdom are forever innocent before the LORD of the shed blood of Abner son of Ner!

  • 2 Sam 18:7
    74%

    7The army of Israel was defeated there by David’s men. The slaughter there was great that day– 20,000 soldiers were killed.

  • 2 Sam 3:19-20
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    74%

    19Then Abner spoke privately with the Benjaminites. Abner also went to Hebron to inform David privately of all that Israel and the entire house of Benjamin had agreed to.

    20When Abner, accompanied by twenty men, came to David in Hebron, David prepared a banquet for Abner and the men who were with him.

  • 1 Chr 11:20
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    20Abishai the brother of Joab was head of the three elite warriors. He killed three hundred men with his spear and gained fame along with the three elite warriors.

  • 2 Sam 3:22-23
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    22Abner Is Killed Now David’s soldiers and Joab were coming back from a raid, bringing a great deal of plunder with them. Abner was no longer with David in Hebron, for David had sent him away and he had left in peace.

    23When Joab and all the army that was with him arrived, Joab was told:“Abner the son of Ner came to the king; he sent him away, and he left in peace!”

  • 1 Kgs 2:31-32
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    31The king told him,“Do as he said! Strike him down and bury him. Take away from me and from my father’s family the guilt of Joab’s murderous, bloody deeds.

    32May the LORD punish him for the blood he shed; behind my father David’s back he struck down and murdered with the sword two men who were more innocent and morally upright than he– Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.

  • 2 Sam 2:12
    73%

    12Then Abner son of Ner and the servants of Ish-bosheth son of Saul went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

  • 2 Sam 19:17
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    17There were a thousand men from Benjamin with him, along with Ziba the servant of Saul’s household, and with him his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They hurriedly crossed the Jordan within sight of the king.

  • Judg 20:44-46
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    72%

    44Eighteen thousand Benjaminites, all of them capable warriors, fell dead.

    45The rest turned and ran toward the wilderness, heading toward the cliff of Rimmon. But the Israelites caught five thousand of them on the main roads. They stayed right on their heels all the way to Gidom and struck down two thousand more.

    46That day twenty-five thousand sword-wielding Benjaminites fell in battle, all of them capable warriors.

  • 2 Sam 3:37-38
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    72%

    37All the people and all Israel realized on that day that the killing of Abner son of Ner was not done at the king’s instigation.

    38Then the king said to his servants,“Do you not realize that a great leader has fallen this day in Israel?

  • Judg 20:15
    71%

    15That day the Benjaminites mustered from their cities twenty-six thousand sword-wielding soldiers, besides seven hundred well-trained soldiers from Gibeah.

  • Judg 20:25
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    25The Benjaminites again attacked them from Gibeah and struck down eighteen thousand sword-wielding Israelite soldiers.

  • 2 Sam 4:12
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    12So David issued orders to the soldiers and they put them to death. Then they cut off their hands and feet and hung them near the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in the tomb of Abner in Hebron.

  • 1 Chr 21:5-6
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    5Joab reported to David the number of warriors. In all Israel there were 1,100,000 sword-wielding soldiers; Judah alone had 470,000 sword-wielding soldiers.

    6Now Joab did not number Levi and Benjamin, for the king’s edict disgusted him.

  • 2 Sam 3:33-34
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    33The king chanted the following lament for Abner:“Should Abner have died like a fool?

    34Your hands were not bound, and your feet were not put into irons. You fell the way one falls before criminals.”All the people wept over him again.

  • 1 Sam 30:21
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    21Then David approached the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to go with him, those whom they had left at the Wadi Besor. They went out to meet David and the people who were with him. When David approached the people, he asked how they were doing.

  • 1 Chr 12:29
    71%

    29From Benjamin, Saul’s tribe, there were 3,000, most of whom, up to that time, had been loyal to Saul.

  • Judg 20:35
    71%

    35The LORD annihilated Benjamin before Israel; the Israelites struck down that day 25,100 sword-wielding Benjaminites.

  • 2 Sam 3:9
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    9God will severely judge Abner if I do not do for David exactly what the LORD has promised him,

  • 2 Sam 1:15
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    15Then David called one of the soldiers and said,“Come here and strike him down!” So he struck him down, and he died.

  • 2 Sam 13:30
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    30While they were still on their way, the following report reached David:“Absalom has killed all the king’s sons; not one of them is left!”

  • 2 Sam 8:5
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    5The Arameans of Damascus came to help King Hadadezer of Zobah, but David killed 22,000 of the Arameans.

  • 1 Sam 31:2
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    2The Philistines stayed right on the heels of Saul and his sons. They struck down Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malki-Shua.

  • 1 Chr 11:11
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    11This is the list of David’s warriors: Jashobeam, a Hacmonite, was head of the officers. He killed three hundred men with his spear in a single battle.