2 Samuel 2:14

And Abner said to Joab: 'Let the young men, I pray thee, arise and play before us.' And Joab said: 'Let them arise.'

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out; and they met together by the pool of Gibeon, and sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.

15Then they arose and passed over by number: twelve for Benjamin, and for Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 2:17And the battle was very sore that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.

Proverbs 10:23It is as sport to a fool to do wickedness, and so is wisdom to a man of discernment.

Proverbs 20:18Every purpose is established by counsel; and with good advice carry on war.

Proverbs 26:18As a madman who casteth firebrands, arrows, and 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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