2 Samuel 2:27

And 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.”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

26and 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?”

28And Joab blows with a horn, and all the people stand still, and no longer pursue after Israel, nor have they added to fight anymore.

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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.”

Proverbs 15:1A soft answer turns back fury, || And a grievous word raises up anger.

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

Isaiah 47:7And you say, I am mistress for all time, || While you have not laid these things to your heart, || You have not remembered the latter end of it.

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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