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New Etext of Bible eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 4,609 pages of information about New Etext of Bible.

10:002:018 And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai,
           and Asahel:  and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.

10:002:019 And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to
           the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.

10:002:020 Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Art thou Asahel?  And
           he answered, I am.

10:002:021 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.

10:002:022 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?

10:002:023 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.

10:002:024 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.

10:002:025 And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together
           after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of an
           hill.

10:002:026 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?

10:002:027 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.

10:002:028 So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and
           pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.

10:002:029 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.

10:002:030 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.

10:002:031 But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of
           Abner’s men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.

10:002:032 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.

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