2 Samuel 2:14

Abner said to Joab, “Let the young men arise and compete before us.” Then Joab said, “Let them arise.”

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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

13Joab son of Zeruiah and the servants of David went out and met them by the pool of Gibeon. There they sat down, one group on one side of the pool and the other on the other side.

15Then the young men got up and gathered together, twelve for Benjamin and Ishbosheth son of Saul, and twelve from servants of David.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 2:17The battle was very severe that day and Abner and the men of Israel were defeated before the servants of David.

Proverbs 10:23Wickedness is a game a fool plays, 1 but wisdom is a pleasure to a man of understanding. 1

Proverbs 20:18Plans are established by advice 1 and only with wise guidance should you wage war. 1

Proverbs 26:18Like a madman who shoots burning arrows, 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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