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2 And it happened after this, and David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Should I go up into one of the cities of Judah?”
And Yahweh said to him, “Go up.”
And David said, “Where should I go up?”
And he said, “To Hebron.”
2 And David went up there and also two of his wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. 3 And his men who were with him, David brought up, each man and his house. And they dwelt in the cities of Hebron. 4 And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David as king over the house of Judah.
And they informed David, saying, “The men of Jabesh-Gilead are those who buried Saul.”
5 And David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-Gilead, and he said to them, “Blessed are you by Yahweh, because you did this kindness with your lord, with Saul, and have buried him. 6 And now may Yahweh do with you kindness and faithfulness. And also I myself will do with you this good thing because you have done this thing. 7 But now, let your hands be strong, and become sons of valor, for Saul your lord died, and also the house of Judah has anointed me as king over them.”
8 And Abner the son of Ner, the captain of the troop which belonged to Saul, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and he brought him over to Mahanaim. 9 And he made him king over Gilead and over the Ashurites and over Jezreel and over Ephraim and over Benjamin and over Israel—all of it.
10 A son of 40 years was Ishbosheth the son of Saul when he became king over Israel, and he was king two years. Nevertheless, the house of Judah was behind David. 11 And it happened, the number of the days 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 But Joab the son of Zeruiah and the servants of David went out and confronted them by the pool of Gibeon together. And they sat down—these by the pool on this side and these by the pool on this side.
14 And Abner said to Joab, “Now let the young men get up and fight to our faces.”
And Joab said, “Let them get up.”
15 And they got up, and they crossed over by number—12 for Benjamin and for Ishbosheth the son of Saul and 12 from the servants of David. 16 And they seized, each one, his neighbor by the head, and his sword in the side of his neighbor, and they fell together. And he called that place, “Helkath Hazzurim,” which is in Gibeon.
17 And the war was extremely severe on that day. And Abner and the men of Israel were struck to the face of the servants of David.
18 And the three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab and Abishai and Asahel. And Asahel was light on his feet, like one of the gazelles which are in the field. 19 And Asahel pursued after Abner. And he did not turn aside to go to the right or to the left from after Abner. 20 And Abner turned behind him, and he said, “Is this you, Asahel?”
And he answered, “It is I.”
21 And Abner said to him, “Turn aside, you, to your right or to your left and grab, you, one from the young men and take, you, his spoil.” But Asahel was not willing to turn from behind him.
22 And Abner still continued, saying to Asahel, “Turn aside, you, from behind me. Why should I strike you to the ground? And how could I lift my face to Joab, your brother?”
23 But he refused to turn aside, and Abner struck him with the back of the spear in the stomach, and the spear went out from his back. And he fell there, and he died under him. And it happened, all the people who came to the place where Asahel fell there and died—and they stood.
24 But Joab and Abishai pursued after Abner (and the sun was going), and they themselves came to the hill of Ammah, which is on the face of Giah, the way of the wilderness of Gibeon. 25 And the sons of Benjamin gathered themselves behind Abner, and they became one troop. And they stood on the top of one hill.
26 And Abner called to Joab, and he said, “Will the sword eat forever? Do you not know that bitterness will be in the end? And how long will you not say to the people to turn from after their brothers?”
27 And Joab said, “By the life of God, that if you had not spoken, surely then from the morning the people would have pulled back, each from after his brother.”
28 And Joab blasted on the trumpet, and all the people stood, and they did not again pursue after Israel. And they did not continue to fight again.
29 And Abner and his men walked all that night through the Arabah. And they crossed the Jordan, and they walked all the morning, and they entered Mahanaim.
30 And Joab returned from after Abner, and he assembled all the people. And 19 men and Asahel were missing from the servants of David. 31 But the servants of David struck from Benjamin, from the men of Abner—360 men they killed. 32 And they took up Asahel, and they buried him in the tomb of his father, which was in Bethlehem. And Joab and his men walked all of the night, and it became light for them at Hebron.
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