2 Samuel 2:26

Contextual Overview

²⁵The Benjaminites rallied to Abner; they formed a unit and took their stand on top of a hill. ²⁵ The children of Binyamin gathered themselves together after Aviner, and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill. ²⁵ And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of an hill. ²⁵ The descendants of Benjamin rallied after Abner, and they became as one fighting group and stood on the top of a certain hill. ²⁵ And the people of Benjamin gathered themselves together behind Abner and became one group and took their stand on the top of a hill. ²⁵ The men of Benjamin came to Abner, and all stood together at the top of the hill. ²⁵ The Benjaminites formed their ranks behind Abner and were like a single army, standing at the top of a certain hill. ²⁵And the sons of [the tribe of] Benjamin gathered together behind Abner and became one troop, and took their stand on the top of a hill. ²⁵ And the sons of Benjamin gathered together behind Abner and became one troop, and they stood on the top of a hill. ²⁵ And the children of Beniamin gathered them selues together after Abner, and were on an heape and stoode on the top of an hill.

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.