2 Samuel 2:26

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Berserulah Abner kepada Yoab: "Haruskah pedang makan terus-menerus? Tidak tahukah engkau, bahwa kepahitan datang pada akhirnya? Berapa lama lagi engkau tidak mau mengatakan kepada rakyat itu, supaya mereka berhenti memburu saudara-saudaranya?"

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Berserulah Abner kepada Yoab: "Haruskah pedang makan terus-menerus? Tidak tahukah engkau, bahwa kepahitan datang pada akhirnya? Berapa lama lagi engkau tidak mau mengatakan kepada rakyat itu, supaya mereka berhenti memburu saudara-saudaranya?"

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Lalu berserulah Abner kepada Yoab, katanya: Patutkah pedang itu makan dengan tiada berhentinya? Tiadakah engkau ketahui akan hal yang terpahit itu datang akhir? entah berapa lama lagi tiada engkau menyuruhkan orang banyak itu balik dari pada mengusir saudaranya?

Contextual Overview

²⁵ And the children of Beniamin gathered them selues together after Abner, & were on a heape, and stoode on the top of an hill. ²⁶ Then Abner called to Ioab, and said: Shall the sword deuour for euer? Knowest thou not, that it wil be bitternesse in the latter ende? Howe long then shall it be yer thou bid the people returne from folowing their brethren? ²⁷ And Ioab sayde: As God lyueth, if thou haddest not spoken, suerly euen in the morning the people had departed, euery one from persecuting his brother. ²⁸ And so Ioab blewe a trumpet, and all the people stoode still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more. ²⁹ And Abner and his men walked all that night through the playne, & went ouer Iordane, & past through all Bethhoron, till they came to Mahanaim. ³⁰ And Ioab returned from persecuting Abner, and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of Dauids seruautes nineteene men, & Asahel. ³¹ But the seruauntes of Dauid had smitten of Beniamin and of Abners men, [so that] three hundred and threescore men died. ³² And they toke vp Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Bethlehem: And Ioab and his men went all night, and the day arose to them at Hebron.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Shall: 2 Samuel 2:14, Acts 7:26

sword: 2 Samuel 11:25, Isaiah 1:20, Jeremiah 2:30, Jeremiah 12:12, Jeremiah 46:10, Jeremiah 46:14, Hosea 11:6

it will be: 2 Samuel 2:16, Proverbs 17:14

how long: Job 18:2, Job 19:2, Psalms 4:2, Jeremiah 4:21

Reciprocal: Genesis 34:26 - edge Judges 9:38 - General Judges 21:6 - repented them 2 Samuel 18:7 - twenty thousand men 2 Chronicles 11:4 - against Psalms 133:1 - how good Proverbs 20:18 - and Proverbs 25:8 - hastily Jeremiah 47:6 - how long Galatians 5:15 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Abner called to Joab,.... For having now a troop of men with him, he could stop with the greater safety; and being on an hill, and perhaps Joab on one opposite to him, could call to him, so as to be heard:

and said, shall the sword devour for ever? slay men, and devour their blood. See Jeremiah 46:10. That he was not thoughtful of, nor concerned about, when he set the young men to fighting before the battle, and called it play to wound and shed the blood of each other; but now the battle going against him, he complains of the devouring sword; and though it had been employed but a few hours, it seemed long to him, a sort of an eternity:

knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? since it might issue in the death of himself, or of Joab, or of both, as it had in Asahel, or, however, in the death of a multitude of others; and which at last would cause bitter reflection in the prosecutors of the war:

how long shall it be then ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren? he pleads relation, that the men of Israel and the men of Judah were brethren; so they were by nation and religion, and therefore should not pursue one another to destruction; but who was the aggressor? It was Abner, that brought his forces against Judah; the men of David acted only on the defensive.