1 Igitur post hæc consuluit David Dominum, dicens: Num ascendam in unam de civitatibus Juda? Et ait Dominus ad eum: Ascende. Dixitque David: Quo ascendam? Et respondit ei: In Hebron. 2 Ascendit ergo David, et duæ uxores ejus, Achinoam Jezraëlites, et Abigail uxor Nabal Carmeli: 3 sed et viros, qui erant cum eo, duxit David singulos cum domo sua: et manserunt in oppidis Hebron. 4 Veneruntque viri Juda, et unxerunt ibi David ut regnaret super domum Juda. Et nuntiatum est David quod viri Jabes Galaad sepelissent Saul. 5 Misit ergo David nuntios ad viros Jabes Galaad, dixitque ad eos: Benedicti vos Domino, qui fecistis misericordiam hanc cum domino vestro Saul, et sepelistis eum. 6 Et nunc retribuet vobis quidem Dominus misericordiam et veritatem: sed et ego reddam gratiam, eo quod fecistis verbum istud. 7 Confortentur manus vestræ, et estote filii fortitudinis: licet enim mortuus sit dominus vester Saul, tamen me unxit domus Juda in regem sibi. 8 Abner autem filius Ner, princeps exercitus Saul, tulit Isboseth filium Saul, et circumduxit eum per castra, 9 regemque constituit super Galaad, et super Gessuri, et super Jezraël, et super Ephraim, et super Benjamin, et super Israël universum. 10 Quadraginta annorum erat Isboseth filius Saul cum regnare cœpisset super Israël, et duobus annis regnavit: sola autem domus Juda sequebatur David. 11 Et fuit numerus dierum quos commoratus est David imperans in Hebron super domum Juda, septem annorum et sex mensium. 12 Egressusque est Abner filius Ner, et pueri Isboseth filii Saul, de castris in Gabaon. 13 Porro Joab filius Sarviæ, et pueri David, egressi sunt, et occurrerunt eis juxta piscinam Gabaon. Et cum in unum convenissent, e regione sederunt: hi ex una parte piscinæ, et illi ex altera. 14 Dixitque Abner ad Joab: Surgant pueri, et ludant coram nobis. Et respondit Joab: Surgant. 15 Surrexerunt ergo, et transierunt numero duodecim de Benjamin, ex parte Isboseth filii Saul, et duodecim de pueris David. 16 Apprehensoque unusquisque capite comparis sui, defixit gladium in latus contrarii, et ceciderunt simul: vocatumque est nomen loci illius: Ager robustorum, in Gabaon. 17 Et ortum est bellum durum satis in die illa: fugatusque est Abner et viri Israël a pueris David. 18 Erant autem ibi tres filii Sarviæ, Joab, et Abisai, et Asaël: porro Asaël cursor velocissimus fuit, quasi unus de capreis quæ morantur in silvis. 19 Persequebatur autem Asaël Abner, et non declinavit ad dextram neque ad sinistram omittens persequi Abner. 20 Respexit itaque Abner post tergum suum, et ait: Tune es Asaël? Qui respondit: Ego sum. 21 Dixitque ei Abner: Vade ad dexteram, sive ad sinistram, et apprehende unum de adolescentibus, et tolle tibi spolia ejus. Noluit autem Asaël omittere quin urgeret eum. 22 Rursumque locutus est Abner ad Asaël: Recede, noli me sequi, ne compellar confodere te in terram, et levare non potero faciem meam ad Joab fratrem tuum. 23 Qui audire contempsit, et noluit declinare: percussit ergo eum Abner aversa hasta in inguine, et transfodit, et mortuus est in eodem loco: omnesque qui transibant per locum illum, in quo ceciderat Asaël et mortuus erat, subsistebant. 24 Persequentibus autem Joab et Abisai fugientem Abner, sol occubuit: et venerunt usque ad collem aquæductus, qui est ex adverso vallis itineris deserti in Gabaon. 25 Congregatique sunt filii Benjamin ad Abner: et conglobati in unum cuneum, steterunt in summitate tumuli unius. 26 Et exclamavit Abner ad Joab, et ait: Num usque ad internecionem tuus mucro desæviet? an ignoras quod periculosa sit desperatio? usquequo non dicis populo ut omittat persequi fratres suos? 27 Et ait Joab: Vivit Dominus, si locutus fuisses, mane recessisset populus persequens fratrem suum. 28 Insonuit ergo Joab buccina, et stetit omnis exercitus, nec persecuti sunt ultra Israël, neque iniere certamen. 29 Abner autem et viri ejus abierunt per campestria, tota nocte illa: et transierunt Jordanem, et lustrata omni Beth-horon, venerunt ad castra. 30 Porro Joab reversus, omisso Abner, congregavit omnem populum: et defuerunt de pueris David decem et novem viri, excepto Asaële. 31 Servi autem David percusserunt de Benjamin, et de viris qui erant cum Abner, trecentos sexaginta, qui et mortui sunt. 32 Tuleruntque Asaël, et sepelierunt eum in sepulchro patris sui in Bethlehem: et ambulaverunt tota nocte Joab et viri qui erant cum eo, et in ipso crepusculo pervenerunt in Hebron.
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People & places in this chapter
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Abishai
Son of Zeruiah and brother of Joab, who went down with David to Saul's sleeping camp, commanded a third of David's army, rescued David from Ishbi-benob, and won a name as chief of…
Cited in the guide: 1 Samuel 26:6; 2 Samuel 2:18; 2 Samuel 10:10
Abner
The son of Saul's uncle Ner and commander of Saul's army, who made Ish-bosheth king, later promised to bring Israel over to David, and was killed by Joab at Hebron in revenge for…
Cited in the guide: 1 Samuel 14:50; 1 Samuel 17:55; 2 Samuel 2:8
Asahel
Son of Zeruiah, fleet of foot like a wild gazelle, who chased Abner and was killed by him; he is listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 2:18; 2 Samuel 2:23; 2 Samuel 2:32
David
The shepherd who became Israel's greatest king and a man after God's own heart.
Cited in the guide: 1 Sam. 16 - 1 Kings 2; 2 Sam. 7; 1 Chron. 2:15; Matt. 1:6
Ish-bosheth
Saul's son who briefly reigned over the northern tribes in rivalry with David.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 2:8-10; 2 Samuel 4
Joab
Son of Zeruiah and commander of David's army, who killed Abner and Amasa, besieged Rabbah, killed Absalom in the oak, and carried out David's census.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 2:13; 2 Samuel 3:27; 2 Samuel 12:26
Zeruiah
David's sister, mother of the mighty warriors Joab, Abishai, and Asahel.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 2:16; 2 Samuel 2:18
Cross references (24)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 143:8; Proverbs 3:5–6; 1 Samuel 30:31; 1 Samuel 23:2; 1 Samuel 23:4
- 2 1 Samuel 25:42–43; 1 Samuel 30:5; Luke 22:28–29
- 3 1 Chronicles 12:1–7; 1 Samuel 27:2–3; 1 Samuel 30:1; 1 Samuel 30:9–10; 1 Samuel 22:2
- 4 2 Samuel 5:5; 1 Samuel 31:11–13; 2 Samuel 5:3; 1 Samuel 16:13; 1 Chronicles 11:3
- 5 1 Samuel 23:21; Psalm 115:15; Ruth 2:20; 1 Samuel 24:19; Ruth 3:10
- 6 Proverbs 14:22; Exodus 34:6; Matthew 5:44; Matthew 5:7; 2 Timothy 1:16–18
- 7 Ephesians 6:10; 2 Samuel 10:12; 1 Samuel 4:9; Genesis 15:1; 1 Samuel 31:12
- 8 1 Samuel 14:50; Genesis 32:2; 1 Samuel 17:55; 1 Chronicles 8:33; 2 Samuel 4:5–6
- 9 Numbers 32:1–42; Psalm 108:8; Numbers 1:40; Joshua 19:18; Judges 1:32
- 11 1 Kings 2:11; 2 Samuel 5:4–5; 1 Chronicles 3:4; 1 Chronicles 29:27
- 12 Joshua 10:4; Joshua 18:25; Joshua 10:2; Joshua 9:3; Joshua 10:12
- 13 1 Chronicles 2:16; 2 Samuel 8:16; 1 Chronicles 11:6; 2 Samuel 2:18; Jeremiah 41:12
- 14 2 Samuel 2:17; Proverbs 25:8; Proverbs 17:14; Proverbs 10:23; Proverbs 26:18–19
- 17 2 Samuel 3:1
- 18 1 Chronicles 12:8; Habakkuk 3:19; Song of Songs 2:17; Psalm 18:33; Song of Songs 8:14
- 19 Proverbs 4:27; Joshua 23:6; 2 Samuel 2:21; Joshua 1:7; 2 Kings 22:2
- 21 Judges 14:19
- 22 2 Samuel 3:27; 2 Kings 14:10–12; Proverbs 29:1; Ecclesiastes 6:10
- 23 2 Samuel 3:27; 2 Samuel 4:6; 2 Samuel 20:10; 2 Samuel 5:6; 2 Samuel 20:12–13
- 26 Jeremiah 46:14; Acts 7:26; Jeremiah 46:10; Proverbs 17:14; Hosea 11:6
- 27 Proverbs 17:14; 1 Samuel 25:26; 2 Samuel 2:14; Proverbs 25:8; Proverbs 15:1
- 29 2 Samuel 2:8; Song of Songs 2:17
- 31 1 Kings 20:11; 2 Samuel 3:1
- 32 1 Chronicles 2:13–16; 1 Samuel 17:58; 2 Samuel 5:1; 2 Chronicles 21:1; 2 Chronicles 16:14
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