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2 Samuel 2
2 Samuels 1, 2,
3, 4,
5, 6,
7, 8,
9, 10,
11, 12,
13, 14,
15, 16,
17, 18,
19, 20,
21, 22,
23, 24
2 Samuel 2:1 And it came to pass after this, that David enquired of the Lord,
saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? And the Lord said unto
him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go up? And he said, Unto Hebron.
2 So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess,
and Abigail Nabal's wife the Carmelite.
3 And his men that were with him did David bring up, every man with his
household: and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron.
4 And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house
of Judah. And they told David, saying, That the men of Jabesh gilead were they
that buried Saul.
5 And David sent messengers unto the men of Jabesh gilead, and said unto them,
Blessed be ye of the Lord, that ye have shewed this kindness unto your lord,
even unto Saul, and have buried him.
6 And now the Lord shew kindness and truth unto you: and I also will requite you
this kindness, because ye have done this thing.
7 Therefore now let your hands be strengthened, and be ye valiant: for your
master Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over
them.
8 But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ish-bosheth the son of
Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
9 And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and
over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.
10 Ishbosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over
Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.
11 And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven
years and six months.
12 And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul,
went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
13 And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met
together by the pool of Gibeon: and they sat down, the one on the one side of
the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.
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Gibeon = Abner's city, in Benjamin
14 And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play before us. And
Joab said, Let them arise.
15 Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, which pertained
to Ish–bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.
16 And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his
fellow's side; so they fell down together: wherefore that place was called
Helkath hazzurim, which is in Gibeon.
17 And there was a very sore battle that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men
of Israel, before the servants of David.
18 And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel:
and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.
19 And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the right hand
nor to the left from following Abner.
20 Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Art thou Asahel? And he answered, I
am.
21 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.
22 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?
23 Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the
spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he
fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many
as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.
24 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.
25 And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and
became one troop, and stood on the top of an hill.
26 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?
27 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.
28 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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God doesn't like brother fighting brother
29 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.
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.
31 But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, so
that three hundred and threescore men died.
32 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.
Jabesh-Gilead
Jabesh-Gilead
— a town on the east of Jordan, on the top of one of the green hills of Gilead,
within the limits of the half tribe of Manasseh, and in full view of Beth-shan.
It is first mentioned in connection with the vengeance taken on its inhabitants
because they had refused to come up to Mizpeh to take part with Israel against
the tribe of Benjamin (Judges 21:8-14). After the battles at Gibeah, that tribe
was almost extinguished, only six hundred men remaining. An expedition went
against Jabesh-Gilead, the whole of whose inhabitants were put to the sword,
except four hundred maidens, whom they brought as prisoners and sent to
"proclaim peace" to the Benjamites who had fled to the crag Rimmon. These
captives were given to them as wives, that the tribe might be saved from
extinction (Judges 21).
This city was afterwards taken by Nahash, king of the Ammonites, but was
delivered by Saul, the newly-elected king of Israel. In gratitude for this
deliverance, forty years after this, the men of Jabesh-Gilead took down the
bodies of Saul and of his three sons from the walls of Beth-shan, and after
burning them, buried the bones under a tree near the city (1 Samuel 31:11-13).
David thanked them for this act of piety (2 Samuel 2:4-6), and afterwards
transferred the remains to the royal sepulchre (21:14). It is identified with
the ruins of ed-Deir, about 6 miles south of Pella, on the north of the Wady
Yabis.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book:
Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh
his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
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