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2 And it happened after this that David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go up into one of the cities of Judah?”
And Yahweh said to him, “Go up.”
And David said, “Where shall I go up?”
And he said, “To Hebron.”
2 So David went up there, and also the two of his wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail, the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. 3 And his men who were with him, David brought up, a man and his house. And they dwelled in the cities of Hebron. 4 And the men of Judah came, and they anointed David there as king over the house of Judah.
And they declared to David, saying, “It was the men of Jabesh Gilead who buried Saul.”
5 And David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead, and he said to them, “Blessed are you by Yahweh, that you have done this kindness with your master, with Saul, and have buried him. 6 And now, may Yahweh do kindness and faithfulness with you. And I myself will also do this good with you because you have done this thing. 7 And now, may your hands be strong, and be sons of valor, for your master Saul has died, and also the house of Judah has anointed me as king over them.”
8 But Abner, the son of Ner, the commander of the army that was to Saul, took Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim. 9 And he made him rule over Gilead and over the Ashurite and over Jezreel and over Ephraim and over Benjamin and over Israel, all of it.
10 Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, was a son of 40 years when he became king over Israel, and he reigned two years. Nevertheless, the house of Judah were behind David. 11 And the number of the days that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.
12 Now 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 encountered them together by the pool of Gibeon. And they sat down, these by the pool on this side and these by the pool on that side.
14 Then Abner said to Joab, “May the young men now arise and play to our faces.”
And Joab said, “May they arise.”
15 So they arose and crossed over, 12 by number to Benjamin and to Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, and 12 from the servants of David. 16 And they seized, a man his fellow by the head, and his sword in the side of his fellow, and they fell together. So one called that place Helkath Hazzurim, which is in Gibeon.
17 And the battle was severe to extremity on that day. And Abner and the men of Israel were struck to the face of the servants of David.
18 Now the three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab and Abishai and Asahel. And Asahel was light on his feet, like one of the gazelles that 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 said, “It is I.”
21 And Abner said to him, “Turn aside for yourself to your right or to your left and seize for yourself one of the young men and take for yourself his spoil.” But Asahel was not willing to turn from behind him.
22 And Abner continued still, saying to Asahel, “Turn aside for yourself from behind me. Why should I strike you to the ground? Then how would I lift my face to Joab your brother?”
23 But he refused to turn aside, so Abner struck him with the back end of the spear in the stomach, and the spear came out from his back. And he fell there, and he died under him. And it happened, every one coming to the place where Asahel fell there and died, that they stood.
24 But Joab and Abishai pursued after Abner, and the sun was coming in, and they themselves came to the hill of Ammah, which is on the face of Giah, the way of the wilderness of Gibeon. 25 Now the sons of Benjamin had gathered themselves behind Abner, and they had become one troop. And they stood on the head of one hill.
26 And Abner called to Joab and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that it will be bitter at the last? So until when will you not say to the people to turn from after their brothers?”
27 And Joab said, “The life of God, that if you had not spoken, that then from the morning the people would have taken itself up, a man from after his brother.”
28 Then Joab blew on the shofar, and all of the people stood, and they did not still pursue after Israel, and they did not still continue to fight.
29 And Abner and his men walked through the Arabah all of that night, and they crossed the Jordan, and they walked all of the morning, and they came to Mahanaim.
30 And Joab returned from after Abner, and he assembled all of the people. And 19 men and Asahel were missing from the servants of David. 31 But the servants of David had struck from Benjamin and among the men of Abner 360 men, they had died. 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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