2 Samuel 2:14
Abner said to Joab, Please let the young men arise and play before us. Joab said, Let them arise.
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- 2 Sam 2:17 : 17 The battle was very severe that day: and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.
- 2 Sam 2:26-27 : 26 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, "Shall the sword devour forever? Don't you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long shall it be then, before you bid the people return from following their brothers?" 27 Joab said, As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone away, nor followed everyone his brother.
- Prov 10:23 : 23 It is a fool's pleasure to do wickedness, But wisdom is a man of understanding's pleasure.
- Prov 17:14 : 14 The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, Therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
- Prov 20:18 : 18 Plans are established by advice; By wise guidance you wage war!
- Prov 25:8 : 8 Don't be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?
- Prov 26:18-19 : 18 Like a madman who shoots firebrands, arrows, and death, 19 Is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "Am I not joking?"
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- 2 Sam 2:12-132 verses78%
12 Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
13 Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met them by the pool of Gibeon; and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.
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15 Then they arose and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin, and for Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.
- 2 Sam 2:24-274 verses74%
24 But Joab and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
25 The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill.
26 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, "Shall the sword devour forever? Don't you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long shall it be then, before you bid the people return from following their brothers?"
27 Joab said, As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone away, nor followed everyone his brother.
- 2 Sam 2:29-313 verses73%
29 Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; and they passed over the Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and came to Mahanaim.
30 Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel.
31 But the servants of David had struck of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, [so that] three hundred sixty men died.
- 2 Sam 2:20-223 verses73%
20 Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Is it you, Asahel? He answered, It is I.
21 Abner said to him, Turn you aside to your right hand or to your left, and lay you hold on one of the young men, and take you his armor. But Asahel would not turn aside from following him.
22 Abner said again to Asahel, Turn you aside from following me: why should I strike you to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab your brother?
- 2 Sam 3:19-246 verses71%
19 Abner also spoke in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and to the whole house of Benjamin.
20 So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. David made Abner and the men who were with him a feast.
21 Abner said to David, I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your soul desires. David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.
22 Behold, the servants of David and Joab came from a foray, and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner was not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in peace.
23 When Joab and all the host who 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.
24 Then Joab came to the king, and said, What have you done? behold, Abner came to you; why is it that you have sent him away, and he is quite gone?
- 2 Sam 3:30-312 verses71%
30 So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
31 David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, Tear your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. King David followed the bier.
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11 There stood by him one of Joab's young men, and said, He who favors Joab, and he who is for David, let him follow Joab.
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17 The battle was very severe that day: and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.
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8 Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, had taken Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
- 1 Chr 19:13-153 verses70%
13 Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, and for the cities of our God: and Yahweh do that which seems him good.
14 So Joab and the people who were with him drew near before the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him.
15 When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
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15 Ten young men who bore Joab's armor compassed about and struck Absalom, and killed him.
- 2 Sam 10:12-143 verses69%
12 Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, and for the cities of our God: and Yahweh do that which seems him good.
13 So Joab and the people who were with him drew near to the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.
14 When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. Then Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.
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21 The king said to Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back.
- 2 Sam 14:30-312 verses69%
30 Therefore he said to his servants, Behold, Joab's field is near mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire. Absalom's servants set the field on fire.
31 Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said to him, Why have your servants set my field on fire?
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1 Now it fell on a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on yonder side. But he didn't tell his father.
- 1 Chr 19:10-112 verses68%
10 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.
11 The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of Ammon.
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26 When Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah: but David didn't know it.
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23 So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
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1 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom.
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12 David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.
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6 It happened, while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong in the house of Saul.
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17 Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, In times past you sought for David to be king over you:
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14 The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
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10 The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and he put them in array against the children of Ammon.
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5 Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
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12 So David's young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him according to all these words.
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14 and David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, Don't you answer, Abner? Then Abner answered, Who are you who cries to the king?
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8 When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Joab was girded with his apparel of war that he had put on, and thereon was a sash with a sword fastened on his loins in the sheath of it; and as he went forth it fell out.
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12 Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose is the land? saying [also], Make your league with me, and, behold, my hand shall be with you, to bring about all Israel to you.