These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Samuel 2
Tanakh 32 verses
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And it came to pass after this, that inquired of , saying: ‘Shall I go up into any of the cities of ?’ And said unto him: ‘Go up.’ And said: ‘Whither shall I go up?’ And He said: ‘Unto .’
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So went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
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And his men that were with him did bring up, every man with his household; and they dwelt in the cities of .
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- 4 And the men of came, and they there anointed over the house of . And they told , saying: ‘The men of Jabesh-gilead were they that buried .’
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And sent messengers unto the men of Jabesh-gilead, and said unto them: ‘Blessed be ye of , that ye have shown this kindness unto your lord, even unto , and have buried him.
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- 6 And now show kindness and unto you; and I also will requite you this kindness, because ye have done this thing.
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Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be ye valiant; for your lord is dead, and also the house of have anointed me over them.’
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- 8 Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s host, had taken Ish-bosheth the son of , and brought him over to Mahanaim;
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and he made him over , and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over , and over , and over all .
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- 10 Ish-bosheth Saul’s son was forty years old when he began to reign over , and he reigned two years. But the house of followed .
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And the time that was in over the house of was seven years and six months.
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And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of , went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
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- 13 And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of , went out; and they met together by the pool of Gibeon, and sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.
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And Abner said to Joab: ‘Let the young men, I pray thee, arise and play before us.’ And Joab said: ‘Let them arise.’
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- 15 Then they arose and passed over by number: twelve for , and for Ish-bosheth the son of , and twelve of the servants of .
- 16 And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow’s side; so they fell down together; wherefore that place was called Helkath-hazzurim, which is in Gibeon.
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And the battle was very sore that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of , before the servants of .
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- 18 And the three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel; and Asahel was as light of foot as one of the roes that are in the field.
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And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.
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- 20 Then Abner looked behind him, and said: ‘Is it thou, Asahel?’ And he answered: ‘It is I.’
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And Abner said to him: ‘Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee his armour.’ But Asahel would not turn aside from following him.
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And Abner said again to Asahel: ‘Turn thee aside from following me; wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my to Joab thy brother?’
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Howbeit he refused to turn aside; wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him in the groin, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place; and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.
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- 24 But Joab and Abishai pursued after Abner; and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lieth before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
- 25 And the children of gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill.
- 26 Then Abner called to Joab, and said: ‘Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?’
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And Joab said: ‘As liveth, if thou hadst not spoken, surely then only after the morning the people had gone away, every one from following his brother.’
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- 28 So Joab blew the horn, and all the people stood still, and pursued after no more, neither fought they any more.
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And Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; and they passed over the , and went through all Bithron, and came to Mahanaim.
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- 30 And Joab returned from following Abner; and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David’s servants nineteen men and Asahel.
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But the servants of had smitten of , even of Abner’s men—three hundred and threescore men died.
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And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Beth-lehem. And Joab and his men went all night, and the day broke upon them at .
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