2 Samuel 2:31

And the servants of David smote of the children of Benjamin, of the men of Abner, three hundred and sixty men belonging to him.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner’s men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.

In Context

30And Joab returned from following Abner, and he assembled all the people, and there were missing of the people of David, nineteen men, and Asahel.

32And they take up Asahel, and bury him in the tomb of his father in Bethlehem. And Joab and the men with him went all the night, and the morning rose upon them in Hebron.

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Cross References

1 Kings 20:11And the men of his city, the elders, and the nobles who dwelt in his city, did as Jezebel sent to them, and as it had been written in the letters which she sent to them.

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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