2 Samuel 2:14

Abner said to Joab, “Please let the young men arise and compete before us!” 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 the son of Zeruiah and David’s servants went out, and met them by the pool of Gibeon; and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool and the other on the other side of the pool.

15Then they arose and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin and for Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of David’s servants.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 2:17The battle was very severe that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before David’s servants.

Proverbs 10:23It is a fool’s pleasure to do wickedness, but wisdom is a man of understanding’s pleasure.

Proverbs 20:18Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!

Proverbs 26:18Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death,

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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