Verse 26

Then Abner called out to Joab,“Must the sword devour forever? Don’t you realize that this will turn bitter in the end? When will you tell the people to turn aside from pursuing their brothers?”

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 46:14 : 14 “Make an announcement throughout Egypt. Proclaim it in Migdol, Memphis, and Tahpanhes.‘Take your positions and prepare to do battle. For the enemy army is destroying all the nations around you.’
  • Jer 46:10 : 10 But that day belongs to the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies. It is a day of reckoning, when he will pay back his adversaries. His sword will devour them until its appetite is satisfied! It will drink its fill from their blood! Indeed it will be a sacrifice for the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies in the land of the north by the Euphrates River.
  • Acts 7:26 : 26 The next day Moses saw two men fighting, and tried to make peace between them, saying,‘Men, you are brothers; why are you hurting one another?’
  • Hos 11:6 : 6 A sword will flash in their cities, it will destroy the bars of their city gates, and will devour them in their fortresses.
  • 2 Sam 2:14 : 14 Abner said to Joab,“Let the soldiers get up and fight before us.” Joab said,“So be it!”
  • 2 Sam 2:16 : 16 As 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.
  • 2 Sam 11:25 : 25 David said to the messenger,“Tell Joab,‘Don’t let this thing upset you. There is no way to anticipate whom the sword will cut down. Press the battle against the city and conquer it.’ Encourage him with these words.”
  • Job 18:2 : 2 “How long until you make an end of words? You must consider, and then we can talk.
  • Job 19:2 : 2 “How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?
  • Ps 4:2 : 2 You men, how long will you try to turn my honor into shame? How long will you love what is worthless and search for what is deceptive?(Selah)
  • Prov 17:14 : 14 Starting a quarrel is like letting out water; abandon strife before it breaks out!
  • Isa 1:20 : 20 But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” Know for certain that the LORD has spoken.
  • Jer 2:30 : 30 “It did no good for me to punish your people. They did not respond to such correction. You slaughtered your prophets like a voracious lion.”
  • Jer 4:21 : 21 “How long must I see the enemy’s battle flags and hear the military signals of their bugles?”
  • Jer 12:12 : 12 A destructive army will come marching over the hilltops in the wilderness. For the LORD will use them as his destructive weapon against everyone from one end of the land to the other. No one will be safe.