2 Samuel 2:14

And Abner says to Joab, “Now let the youths rise and they play before us”; and Joab says, “Let them rise.”

Literal Standard Version

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 son of Zeruiah, and servants of David, have gone out, and they meet by the pool of Gibeon together, and sit down, these by the pool on this [side], and these by the pool on that [side].

15And they rise and pass over, in number twelve of Benjamin, even of Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 2:17and the battle is very hard on that day, and Abner is struck, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.

Proverbs 10:23To execute inventions [is] as play to a fool, || And wisdom to a man of understanding.

Proverbs 20:18You establish purposes by counsel, || And with plans you make war.

Proverbs 26:18As [one] pretending to be feeble, || Who is casting sparks, 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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