Thematic Bible
2 Samuel 2:1 (show verse)
It happened after this, that David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?" Yahweh said to him, "Go up." David said, "Where shall I go up?" He said, "To Hebron."
2 Samuel 2:2 (show verse)
So David went up there, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
2 Samuel 2:3 (show verse)
David brought up his men who were with him, every man with his household. They lived in the cities of Hebron.
2 Samuel 2:4 (show verse)
The men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David, saying, "The men of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Saul."
2 Samuel 2:5 (show verse)
David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead, and said to them, "Blessed are you by Yahweh, that you have shown this kindness to your lord, even to Saul, and have buried him.
2 Samuel 2:6 (show verse)
Now may Yahweh show loving kindness and truth to you. I also will reward you for this kindness, because you have done this thing.
2 Samuel 2:7 (show verse)
Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them."
2 Samuel 2:8 (show verse)
Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's army, had taken Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
2 Samuel 2:9 (show verse)
and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.
2 Samuel 2:10 (show verse)
Ishbosheth, Saul's son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.
2 Samuel 2:11 (show verse)
The time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.
2 Samuel 2:12 (show verse)
Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
2 Samuel 2:13 (show verse)
Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met them by the pool of Gibeon; and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.
2 Samuel 2:14 (show verse)
Abner said to Joab, "Please let the young men arise and play before us!" Joab said, "Let them arise!"
2 Samuel 2:15 (show verse)
Then they arose and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin, and for Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.
2 Samuel 2:16 (show verse)
They caught everyone 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.
2 Samuel 2:17 (show verse)
The battle was very severe that day: and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.
2 Samuel 2:18 (show verse)
The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle.
2 Samuel 2:19 (show verse)
Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he didn't turn to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.
2 Samuel 2:20 (show verse)
Then Abner looked behind him, and said, "Is it you, Asahel?" He answered, "It is I."
2 Samuel 2:21 (show verse)
Abner said to him, "Turn aside to your right hand or to your left, and grab one of the young men, and take his armor." But Asahel would not turn aside from following him.
2 Samuel 2:22 (show verse)
Abner said again to Asahel, "Turn aside from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then should I hold up my face to Joab your brother?"
2 Samuel 2:23 (show verse)
However he refused to turn aside. Therefore Abner with the back end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place. It happened, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.
2 Samuel 2:24 (show verse)
But Joab and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
2 Samuel 2:25 (show verse)
The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill.
2 Samuel 2:26 (show verse)
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 shall it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?"
2 Samuel 2:27 (show verse)
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."
2 Samuel 2:28 (show verse)
So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.
2 Samuel 2:29 (show verse)
Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; and they passed over the Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and came to Mahanaim.
2 Samuel 2:30 (show verse)
Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel.
2 Samuel 2:31 (show verse)
But the servants of David had struck of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, [so that] three hundred sixty men died.
2 Samuel 2:32 (show verse)
They took up Asahel, and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was in Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all night, and the day broke on them at Hebron.