2 Samuel 2:14

And Avner said to Yoav, Let the young men now arise for a contest before us. And Yoav said, Let them arise.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 Yoav Ben Tzeruyah, and the avadim of Dovid, went out, and met together by the pool of Giv'on; and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.

15Then there arose and went over by mispar twelve of Binyamin, which pertained to Ish-Boshet ben Sha'ul, and twelve of the avadim of Dovid.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 2:17And there was a very fierce milchamah that day; and Avner was defeated, and the Anshei Yisroel, before the Avadim of Dovid.

Proverbs 10:23It is as sport to a kesil to do zimmah (evil design), 1 but an ish tevunah (man of understanding) hath chochmah. 1

Proverbs 20:18Every plan is established by etzah, 1 and with tachbulot (guidance) wage milchamah. 1

Proverbs 26:18As a mad man who shooteth 1 firebrands, khitzim (arrows), and mavet, 1

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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