2 Samuel 2:26 - Tree of Life Version

²⁶ Then Abner called out to Joab and said, “Must the sword devour forever? Don’t you realize how bitter it will be in the end? How long until you order the people to stop pursuing their kinsmen?”

More versions

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?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ And Abner cried out to Joab, and said: Shall thy sword rage unto utter destruction? Knowest thou not that it is dangerous to drive people to despair? How long dost thou defer to bid the people cease from pursuing after their brethren?

2 Samuel 2:26 Cross References

2 Samuel 11:25

Then David said to the messenger, “Thus you shall say to Joab, ‘Don’t let this matter upset you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Press your attack against the city and overthrow it!’ So tell him, chazak!”

2 Samuel 2:14

Then Abner said to Joab, “Now let the young men get up and compete before us.” “Let them get up,” Joab replied.

2 Samuel 2:16

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

2 Samuel 2:25

Then the sons of Benjamin rallied to Abner and became one group, taking their stand on top of one of the hills.

2 Samuel 2:27

“As God lives,” Joab replied, “if you had not spoken, then surely the people would have gone up until the morning, everyone after his kinsman.”

Job 18:2

“How long until you end these words? Consider, and then we will talk.

Job 19:2

“How long will you torment my soul and crush me with words?

Psalm 4:2

Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness! You set me free when I am in distress. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer.

Proverbs 17:14

The beginning of strife is like letting out water— so stop a quarrel before it breaks out.

Isaiah 1:20

But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword.” For the mouth of Adonai has spoken.

Jeremiah 12:12

On all the bare hills in the wilderness destroyers have come. For the sword of Adonai is devouring from the one end of the land to the other end of the land. No flesh has shalom.

Jeremiah 2:30

“In vain I struck your children. They took no correction. Your sword devoured your prophets like a ravaging lion.”

Jeremiah 4:21

How long must I see the battle standard and hear the sound of the shofar?

Jeremiah 46:10

For that day belongs to my Lord Adonai-Tzva’ot, as a day of vengeance, to avenge Himself against His foes. The sword will devour and be satisfied and will drink its fill of their blood. For it will be a sacrifice for my Lord Adonai-Tzva’ot, in the northern land by the river Euphrates.

Jeremiah 46:14

“Declare it in Egypt, proclaim in Migdol, and announce in Noph and Tahpanhes. Say: ‘Stand up and get ready! For the sword has devoured all around you.

Hosea 11:6

So a sword will fall on his cities, and destroy and devour his gate bars because of their own counsels.

Acts 7:26

So on the next day he appeared to them as they were fighting. He tried to reconcile them in shalom, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?’