2 Samuel 2:18

And there were three Bnei Tzeruyah there: Yoav, Avishai, Asahel; Asahel was as swift of foot as a gazelle.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.

In Context

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

19Asahel pursued after Avner; and in going he turned not to the right nor to the left from following Avner.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 1:23Sha'ul and Yonatan 1 were beloved and gracious in their lives, 1 and in their mot they were not parted; 1 they were swifter than nesharim, 1 they were stronger than arayot. 1

2 Samuel 23:24Asahel the brother of Yoav was one of the thirty; Elchanan Ben Dodo of Beit-Lechem,

1 Chronicles 2:16Whose achayot (sisters) were Tzeruyah, and Avigal. And the Bnei Tzeruyah: Avishai, and Yoav, and Asahel, three.

1 Chronicles 12:8And Yo'elah, and Zevadyah, the Bnei Yerocham of Gedor.

1 Chronicles 27:7The fourth for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Yoav, and Zevadyah bno after him; and in his division were twenty and four elef.

Psalms 147:10He delighteth not in the gevurat hasus: 1 He taketh not pleasure in the shokayim of an ish (legs of a man). 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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