Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shall you say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another: make your battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and so encourage him.
2 Samuel 2:26 - King James 2000 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour forever? know you not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, before you bid the people return from following their brethren? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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? |
Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shall you say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another: make your battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and so encourage him.
And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.
And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow’s side; so they fell down together: therefore that place was called Helkath-hazzurim, which is in Gibeon.
And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of a hill.
And Joab said, As God lives, unless you had spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone up every one from following his brother.
How long will it be before you make an end of words? consider, and afterwards we will speak.
How long will you torment my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
O you sons of men, how long will you turn my glory into shame? how long will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.
The beginning of strife is like releasing water: therefore leave off contention, before a quarrel starts.
But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
The plunderers have come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge himself of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be filled full and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts holds a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
Declare you in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say you, Stand fast, and prepare you; for the sword shall devour all around you.
And the sword shall rage against his cities, and shall consume his districts, and devour them, because of their own counsels.
And the next day he showed himself unto them as they strove, and would have reconciled them again, saying, Sirs, you are brethren; why do you wrong one to another?