2 Samuel 2:26

and Abner calls to Joab and says, “Does the sword consume forever? Have you not known that it is bitterness in the latter end? And until when do you not say to the people to turn back from after their brothers?”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?

In Context

25And the sons of Benjamin gather themselves together after Abner, and become one troop, and stand on the top of a certain height,

27And Joab says, “God lives! For unless you had spoken, surely then from the morning each of the people had gone up from after his brother.”

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Cross References

2 Samuel 2:14And Abner says to Joab, “Now let the youths rise and they play before us”; and Joab says, “Let them rise.”

2 Samuel 11:25And David says to the messenger, “Thus you say to Joab, Do not let this thing be evil in your eyes; for thus and thus the sword devours; strengthen your warfare against the city, and throw it down; so you strengthen him.”

Job 19:2“Until when do you afflict my soul, || And bruise me with words?

Proverbs 17:14The beginning of contention [is] a letting out of waters, || And leave the strife before it is meddled with.

Jeremiah 2:30“I have struck your sons in vain, || They have not accepted instruction, || Your sword has devoured your prophets, || As a destroying lion.

Jeremiah 12:12Spoilers have come in on all high places in the plain, || For the sword of YHWH is consuming, || From the end of the land even to the end of the land, || There is no peace to any flesh.

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 2:26-32

25 And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of an hill. 26 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren? 27 And Joab said, As God liveth, unless thou hadst spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone up every one from following his brother. 28 So Joab blew a… Read the whole commentary →

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