2 Samuel 2:26

Bible in Basic English 1965

Then crying out to Joab, Abner said, Are fighting and destruction to go on for ever? do you not see that the end will only be bitter? how long will it be before you send the people back and make them give up attacking their countrymen?

Cross References

2 Samuel 11:25

Then David said to the man, Go and say to Joab, Do not let this be a grief to you; for one man may come to his death by the sword like another: put up an even stronger fight against the town, and take it: and do you put heart into him.

2 Samuel 2:14

And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men give a test of their strength before us. And Joab said, Let them do so.

2 Samuel 2:16

And every one got the other by the head, driving his sword into the other's side, so they all went down together: and that place was named the Field of Sides, and it is in Gibeon.

2 Samuel 2:25

And the men of Benjamin came together after Abner in one band, and took their places on the top of a hill.

2 Samuel 2:27

And Joab said, By the living God, if you had not given the word, the people would have gone on attacking their countrymen till the morning.

Job 18:2

How long will it be before you have done talking? Get wisdom, and then we will say what is in our minds.

Job 19:2

How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?

Psalm 4:2

O you sons of men, how long will you go on turning my glory into shame? how long will you give your love to foolish things, going after what is false? Selah.

Proverbs 17:14

The start of fighting is like the letting out of water: so give up before it comes to blows.

Isaiah 1:20

But if your hearts are turned against me, I will send destruction on you by the sword; so the Lord has said.

Jeremiah 12:12

Those who make waste have come on all the open hilltops in the waste land; for the sword of the Lord sends destruction from one end of the land to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.

Jeremiah 2:30

I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.

Jeremiah 4:21

How long will I go on seeing the flag and hearing the sound of the war-horn?

Jeremiah 46:10

But that day is the day of the Lord, the Lord of armies, a day of punishment when he will take payment from his haters: and the sword will have all its desire, drinking their blood in full measure: for there is an offering to the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the north country by the river Euphrates.

Jeremiah 46:14

Give the news in Migdol, make it public in Noph: say, Take up your positions and make yourselves ready; for on every side of you the sword has made destruction.

Hosea 11:6

And the sword will go through his towns, wasting his children and causing destruction because of their evil designs.

Acts 7:26

And the day after, he came to them, while they were having a fight, and would have made peace between them, saying, Sirs, you are brothers; why do you do wrong to one another?