The Book of 2 Samuel! verse by verse...

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2 Samuel 2:14 (KJV) And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.

 

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2 Samuel 2:15 (KJV) Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, which pertained to Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.

 

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[bible]2 Samuel 2:16[/bible]

 

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2 Samuel 2:17 (KJV) And there was a very sore battle that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.

 

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2 Samuel 2:18 (KJV) And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.

 

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2 Samuel 2:19 (KJV) 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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2Sa 2:20 And Abner looked behind him, and said, Are you Asahel? And he said, I am.

 

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2 Samuel 2:21 (KJV) 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 of him.

 

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2 Samuel 2:22 (KJV) 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 face to Joab thy brother?

 

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2Sa 2:23 But Asahel refused to turn away. So Abner struck him with the butt of the spear. The spear went into his belly and came out his back. He fell down there and died on the spot. And everyone who came to the place where Asahel fell and died stopped there.

 

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2 Samuel 2:24 (KJV) Joab also 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.

 

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[bible]2 Samuel 2:25[/bible]

 

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2 Samuel 2:26 (KJV) 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?

 

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2 Samuel 2:27 (KJV) And Joab said, As God liveth, unless thou hadst spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone up every one from following his brother.

 

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2 Samuel 2:28 (KJV) So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.

 

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2 Samuel 2:29 (KJV) And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain, and passed over Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and they came to Mahanaim.

 

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2 Samuel 2:30
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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2 Samuel 2:31 (NKJV)

But the servants of David had stuck down of Benjamin and Abner's men. three hundred and sixty men who died.

 

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2 Samuel 2:32 (KJV) And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Bethlehem. And Joab and his men went all night, and they came to Hebron at break of day.

 

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2 Samuel 3:1 (KJV) Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.