2 Samuel 2:26 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

²⁶ Then Abner called to Joab, “Is the sword to keep devouring forever? Do you not know that the end will be bitter? How long will it be before you order your people to turn from the pursuit of their kinsmen?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ Then Abner called to Joab, Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that bitterness will be the result? How long will it be then before you bid the people to stop pursuing their brethren?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?

Common English Bible

²⁶ Abner yelled down to Joab, “Must the sword keep killing forever? Don’t you realize that this will end bitterly? How long before you order the troops to stop chasing their brothers?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ And Abner cried out to Joab, and he said: "Will your sword rage unto utter destruction? Are you ignorant that it is perilous to act in desperation? How long will you not tell the people to cease from the pursuit of their brothers?"

2 Samuel 2:26 Krydshenvisninger

2 Samuel 11:25

David said to the messenger, “Thus you shall say to Joab, ‘Do not let this matter trouble you, for the sword devours now one and now another; press your attack on the city, and overthrow it.’ And encourage him.”

2 Samuel 2:14

Abner said to Joab, “Let the young men come forward and have a contest before us.” Joab said, “Let them come forward.”

2 Samuel 2:16

Each grasped his opponent by the head, and thrust his sword in his opponent's side; so they fell down together. Therefore that place was called Helkath-hazzurim, which is at Gibeon.

2 Samuel 2:25

The Benjaminites rallied around Abner and formed a single band; they took their stand on the top of a hill.

2 Samuel 2:27

Joab said, “As God lives, if you had not spoken, the people would have continued to pursue their kinsmen, not stopping until morning.”

Job 18:2

“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we shall speak.

Job 19:2

“How long will you torment me, and break me in pieces with words?

Psalm 4:2

How long, you people, shall my honor suffer shame? How long will you love vain words, and seek after lies? Selah

Proverbs 17:14

The beginning of strife is like letting out water; so stop before the quarrel breaks out.

Isaiah 1:20

but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

Jeremiah 12:12

Upon all the bare heights in the desert spoilers have come; for the sword of the Lord devours from one end of the land to the other; no one shall be safe.

Jeremiah 2:30

In vain I have struck down your children; they accepted no correction. Your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

Jeremiah 4:21

How long must I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

Jeremiah 46:10

That day is the day of the Lord God of hosts, a day of retribution, to gain vindication from his foes. The sword shall devour and be sated, and drink its fill of their blood. For the Lord God of hosts holds a sacrifice in the land of the north by the river Euphrates.

Jeremiah 46:14

Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in Migdol; proclaim in Memphis and Tahpanhes; Say, “Take your stations and be ready, for the sword shall devour those around you.”

Hosea 11:6

The sword rages in their cities, it consumes their oracle-priests, and devours because of their schemes.

Acts 7:26

The next day he came to some of them as they were quarreling and tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why do you wrong each other?’