2 Samuel 2:26

World Messianic Bible British Edition

Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?”

Cross References

2 Samuel 11:25

Then David said to the messenger, “Tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.’ Encourage him.”

2 Samuel 2:14

Abner said to Joab, “Please let the young men arise and compete before us!” Joab said, “Let them arise!”

2 Samuel 2:16

They each caught his opponent by the head and thrust his sword in his fellow’s side; so they fell down together. Therefore that place in Gibeon was called Helkath Hazzurim.

2 Samuel 2:25

The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill.

2 Samuel 2:27

Joab said, “As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother.”

Job 18:2

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

Job 19:2

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

Psalm 4:2

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonour? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood? Selah.

Proverbs 17:14

The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarrelling breaks out.

Isaiah 1:20

but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword; for the LORD’s mouth has spoken it.”

Jeremiah 12:12

Destroyers have come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of the LORD devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land. No flesh has peace.

Jeremiah 2:30

“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

Jeremiah 4:21

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

Jeremiah 46:10

For that day is of the Lord, GOD of Hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge himself of his adversaries. The sword will devour and be satiated, and will drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, GOD of Hosts, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

Jeremiah 46:14

“Declare in Egypt, publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes; say, ‘Stand up, and prepare, for the sword has devoured around you.’

Hosea 11:6

The sword will fall on their cities, and will destroy the bars of their gates, and will put an end to their plans.

Acts 7:26

“The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, ‘Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?’