2 Samuel 2:19

Webster's Bible (1833)

Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he didn't turn to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.

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  • Josh 1:7 : 7 Only be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded you: don't turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.
  • Josh 23:6 : 6 Therefore be you very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left;
  • 2 Sam 2:21 : 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.
  • 2 Kgs 22:2 : 2 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
  • Prov 4:27 : 27 Don't turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.

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  • 2 Sam 2:20-25
    6 verses
    89%

    20Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Is it you, Asahel? He answered, It is I.

    21Abner 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.

    22Abner 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?

    23However he refused to turn aside: therefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it happened, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.

    24But 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.

    25The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill.

  • 2 Sam 2:17-18
    2 verses
    81%

    17The battle was very severe that day: and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.

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

  • 2 Sam 2:27-32
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    27Joab said, As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone away, nor followed everyone his brother.

    28So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.

    29Abner 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.

    30Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel.

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

    32They took up Asahel, and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was in Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all night, and the day broke on them at Hebron.

  • 2 Sam 3:30-31
    2 verses
    75%

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

    31David 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.

  • 2 Sam 3:22-27
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    73%

    22Behold, 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.

    23When 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.

    24Then 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?

    25You know Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do.

    26When 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.

    27When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

  • 2 Sam 20:13-14
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    70%

    13When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

    14He went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel, and to Beth Maacah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him.

  • Isa 41:3
    69%

    3He pursues them, and passes on safely, even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.

  • 2 Sam 2:12
    69%

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

  • 2 Chr 20:32
    69%

    32He walked in the way of Asa his father, and didn't turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh.

  • 1 Chr 2:16
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    16and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.

  • 2 Sam 20:10-11
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    69%

    10But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he struck him therewith in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn't strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

    11There 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.

  • 2 Sam 20:6-7
    2 verses
    68%

    6David said to Abishai, Now will Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take your lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.

    7There went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

  • 2 Sam 3:9
    68%

    9God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as Yahweh has sworn to David, I don't do even so to him;

  • Prov 4:27
    68%

    27Don't turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.

  • Ps 18:37
    68%

    37I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again until they are consumed.

  • 2 Sam 14:29
    68%

    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.

  • 2 Sam 14:19
    67%

    19The king said, Is the hand of Joab with you in all this? The woman answered, As your soul lives, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid;

  • 1 Chr 19:14-15
    2 verses
    67%

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

    15When 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.

  • 1 Chr 27:7
    67%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 13:19
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    19Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with the towns of it, and Jeshanah with the towns of it, and Ephron with the towns of it.

  • 2 Chr 34:2
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    2He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

  • 2 Sam 3:16
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    16Her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to Bahurim. Then said Abner to him, Go, return: and he returned.

  • 2 Kgs 18:6
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    6For he joined with Yahweh; he didn't depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.

  • 2 Sam 18:14
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    14Then said Joab, I may not wait thus with you. He took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.

  • Josh 8:17
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    17There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El, who didn't go out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.

  • 2 Sam 2:8
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    8Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, had taken Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;

  • 2 Sam 23:24
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    24Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

  • 1 Sam 30:10
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    10But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they couldn't go over the brook Besor.

  • 2 Sam 18:30
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    30The king said, Turn aside, and stand here. He turned aside, and stood still.