rotherham 2Samuel:2:8-3:5
rotherham@2Samuel:2:8 @ But, Abner son of Ner, prince of the host that pertained unto Saul, took Ish-bosheth, son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
rotherham@2Samuel:2:9 @ and made him king for Gilead, and for the Ashurites, and for Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over, all Israel.
rotherham@2Samuel:2:10 @ Forty years old, was Ish-bosheth son of Saul, when he began to reign over Israel, and, two years, reigned he, but, the house of Judah, followed David.
rotherham@2Samuel:2:11 @ And it came to pass, that, the number of the days that David was king in Hebron, over the house of Judah, was seven years and six months.
rotherham@2Samuel:2:12 @ And Abner son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-bosheth, son of Saul, came out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
rotherham@2Samuel:2:13 @ And, Joab son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out from Hebron and met, by the pool of Gibeon, together, and they sat down, these, by the pool, on the one side, and, those, by the pool, on the other side.
rotherham@2Samuel:2:14 @ Then said Abner unto Joab, Let the young men arise, I pray thee, and make sport before us. And Joab said Let them arise.
rotherham@2Samuel:2:15 @ Then there arose, and went over by number, twelve of Benjamin, pertaining to Ish-bosheth, son of Saul, and twelve, of the servants of David.
rotherham@2Samuel:2:16 @ And they caught every one his fellow by the head, with his sword in his fellows side, so they fell, together, and that place was called Helkath-hazzadim, which is in Gideon. \fs15
rotherham@2Samuel:2:17 @ So the battle became exceeding obstinate, on that day, and Abner and the men of Israel were defeated before the servants of David.
rotherham@2Samuel:2:18 @ Now there were there, three sons of Zeruiah, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel, and, Asahel, was light of foot as a wild gazelle.
rotherham@2Samuel:2:19 @ And Asahel pursued Abner, and turned not, in going, to the right hand or to the left, from pursuing Abner.
rotherham@2Samuel:2:20 @ Then Abner looked behind him, and said Art thou Asahel? And he said I am.
rotherham@2Samuel:2:21 @ Then Abner said to him Turn thee aside, to thy right hand, or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee his armour. But Asahel would not turn aside from pursuing him.
rotherham@2Samuel:2:22 @ And Abner said, yet again, unto Asahel, Turn thee aside from pursuing me, wherefore should I smite thee to the earth? how then should I lift up my face unto Joab, thy brother?
rotherham@2Samuel:2:23 @ Howbeit he refused to turn aside, wherefore Abner smote him with the hinder end of the spear, in the belly, that the spear came out behind him, and he fell there, and died on the spot, and so it was, that, as many as came up to the place where Asahel fell and died, stood still.
rotherham@2Samuel:2:24 @ Then Joab and Abishai pursued Abner, but, the sun, had gone in by the time, they, had come as far as the hill of Ammah, that overlooketh Giah, by way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
rotherham@2Samuel:2:25 @ And, when the sons of Benjamin had gathered themselves together after Abner, and become one band, and had taken their stand on the top of a certain hill,
rotherham@2Samuel:2:26 @ then Abner cried aloud unto Joab, and said To the uttermost, must the sword devour? Dost thou not well know that, bitter, shall it be, in the latter end? How long, then, wilt thou not bid the people turn back from pursuing their own brethren?
rotherham@2Samuel:2:27 @ Then said Joab As God liveth, surely, if thou hadst not spoken, then in the morning, the people would of themselves have gone up, every man from pursuing his brother.
rotherham@2Samuel:2:28 @ So Joab blew with the horn, and all the people stood still, and they neither pursued Israel further, nor fought any more.
rotherham@2Samuel:2:29 @ And, Abner and his men, journeyed through the waste plain all that night, and crossed the Jordan, and went through all the Bithron, and entered Mahanaim.
rotherham@2Samuel:2:30 @ And, Joab, returned from pursuing Abner, and, when he had gathered together all the people, there were missing of the servants of Davidnineteen men, and Asahel;
rotherham@2Samuel:2:31 @ but, the servants of David, had smitten of Benjamin, of the men of Abner, three hundred and sixty men, had died.
rotherham@2Samuel:2:32 @ And they carried Asahel, and buried him in the grave of his father, which was in Bethlehem, and Joab and his men journeyed all the night, and had daylight in Hebron.
rotherham@2Samuel:3:1 @ And the war between the house of Saul and the house of David was prolonged, and, David, waxed stronger and stronger, and, the house of Saul, became weaker and weaker.
rotherham@2Samuel:3:2 @ And there were born unto David, sons, in Hebron, and it came to press that His firstborn was Amnon, by Ahinoam, the Jezreelitess;
rotherham@2Samuel:3:3 @ And his second Chileab, by Abigail, wife of Nabal the Carmelite, And the third Absolom, son of Maachah, daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur;
rotherham@2Samuel:3:4 @ And the fourth Adonijah, son of Higgith, And the fifth Shephatiah, son of Abital;
rotherham@2Samuel:3:5 @ And the sixth Ithream, by Eglah wife of David. These, were born unto David, in Hebron.
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