2 Samuel 2:14

And Abner said to Joab: Let the young men rise, and play before us. And Joab answered: Let them rise.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.

In Context

13And Joab the son of Sarvia, and the servants of David went out, and met them by the pool of Gabaon. And when they were come together, they sat down over against one another: the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side.

15Then there arose and went over twelve in number of Benjamin, of the part of Isboseth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 2:17And there was a very fierce battle that day: and Abner was put to flight, with the men of Israel, by the servants of David.

Proverbs 10:23A fool worketh mischief as it were for sport: but wisdom is prudence to a man.

Proverbs 20:18Designs are strengthened by counsels: and wars are to be managed by governments.

Proverbs 26:18As he is guilty that shooteth arrows, and lances unto death :

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 2:9-18

A Civil War in Israel. ( b. c. 1053.) 8 But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim; 9 And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel. 10 Ishbosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David. 11 And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years… Read the whole commentary →

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