2 Samuel 2:30

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Ketika Yoab berhenti memburu Abner dan menghimpunkan seluruh rakyat, ternyata sembilan belas orang dari anak buah Daud hilang termasuk Asael.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Ketika Yoab berhenti memburu Abner dan menghimpunkan seluruh rakyat, ternyata sembilan belas orang dari anak buah Daud hilang termasuk Asael.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka Yoabpun kembalilah dari mengusir Abner, dihimpunkannyalah segala rakyat itu, maka dari pada segala hamba Daud itu kuranglah sembilan belas orang dan lagi Asahel.

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.

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Joab returned from following Abner,.... It being in his commission from David to shed as little blood as he could:

and when he had gathered all the people together; who had been pursuing the Israelites, some one way and some another:

there lacked of David's servants nineteen men, and Asahel; who is particularly mentioned, because a very honourable man, valiant and courageous, a relation of David, and brother of Joab the general, and the loss of him was greater than all the rest. This has made some think that the twelve men of the servants of David were not killed in the duel, or otherwise there must be but seven slain in the battle; though that is not more strange than that in the battle with Midian not one should be slain, and, yet a terrible slaughter was made of the Midianites, Numbers 31:1. So in a sharp battle between the Spartans and Arcadians, ten thousand of the latter were slain, and not one of the former q. Stilicho killed more than an hundred thousand of the army of Rhadagaisus, king of the Goths, without losing one of his own men, no, not so much as one wounded, as Austin affirms r. At the battle of Issus the Persians lost an hundred ten thousand men, and Alexander not two hundred s. Julius Caesar killed in the three camps of Juba, Scipio, and Labienus, ten thousand men, with the loss of fifty men only t. After these instances, not only the case here, but that between the Israelites and Midianites, cannot be thought incredible, for the sake of which the above are produced. This account, according to Josephus u, was taken the day following.

q Diodor. Sic. l. 15. p. 383. r De civilate Dei, l. 5. c. 23. s Curtius, l. 3. c. 11. t Hirtius de Bello African. c. 86. u Antiqu. l. 7. c. 1. sect. 3.