After this, David inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?” 1Sa 30:31Pro 3:5-6Psa 143:81Sa 23:21Sa 23:4Gen 32:21Sa 23:9-12Ezk 36:37
The LORD said to him, “Go up.”
David said, “Where shall I go up?”
He said, “To Hebron.”
So David went up there with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. 1Sa 25:42-431Sa 30:5Luk 22:28-29 David brought up his men who were with him, every man with his household. They lived in the cities of Hebron. 1Ch 12:1-71Sa 27:2-31Sa 30:11Sa 22:21Sa 30:9-10Jos 21:11-12 The men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David, “The men of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Saul.” 2Sa 5:51Sa 31:11-132Sa 5:31Ch 11:31Sa 16:132Sa 19:112Sa 19:422Sa 2:11 David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead, and said to them, “Blessed are you by the LORD, that you have shown this kindness to your lord, even to Saul, and have buried him. 1Sa 23:21Psa 115:151Sa 24:191Sa 25:32-33Rut 2:20Rut 3:10Rut 1:8 Now may the LORD show loving kindness and truth to you. I also will reward you for this kindness, because you have done this thing. Pro 14:22Exo 34:6Mat 5:44Mat 5:72Sa 10:22Sa 15:202Sa 9:32Sa 9:7 Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.” Eph 6:102Sa 10:121Sa 31:121Sa 4:9Gen 15:11Co 16:131Sa 31:7
Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s army, had taken Ishbosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim. 1Sa 14:50Gen 32:21Ch 8:331Ch 9:391Sa 17:551Sa 26:142Sa 17:26-272Sa 3:7-8 He made him king over Gilead, over the Ashurites, over Jezreel, over Ephraim, over Benjamin, and over all Israel. Gen 30:13Jdg 1:32Jos 13:8-11Jos 19:18Num 1:40Num 32:1-42Psa 108:8 Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David. The time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months. 1Ki 2:112Sa 5:4-51Ch 29:271Ch 3:4
Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon. Jos 10:2Jos 10:4Jos 18:25Jos 9:32Sa 17:14Gen 32:2Jos 10:12 Joab the son of Zeruiah and David’s servants went out, and met them 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. 1Ch 2:162Sa 8:161Ch 11:61Ki 1:71Ki 2:28-352Sa 2:182Sa 20:23Jer 41:12 Abner said to Joab, “Please let the young men arise and compete before us!” 2Sa 2:172Sa 2:26-27Pro 10:23Pro 17:14Pro 20:18Pro 25:8Pro 26:18-19
Joab said, “Let them arise!” Then they arose and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin and for Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of David’s servants. They each caught his opponent by the head and thrust his sword in his fellow’s side; so they fell down together. Therefore that place in Gibeon was called Helkath Hazzurim. 1 The battle was very severe that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before David’s servants. 2Sa 3:1 The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle. 1Ch 12:8Hab 3:19Psa 18:33Sng 2:17Sng 8:141Ch 11:261Ch 2:15-161Sa 26:6 Asahel pursued Abner. He didn’t turn to the right hand or to the left from following Abner. 2Ki 22:22Sa 2:21Jos 1:7Jos 23:6Pro 4:27
Then Abner looked behind him and said, “Is that you, Asahel?”
He answered, “It is.”
Abner said to him, “Turn away to your right hand or to your left, and grab one of the young men, and take his armor.” But Asahel would not turn away from following him. Jdg 14:19 Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn away from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I look Joab your brother in the face?” 2Sa 3:272Ki 14:10-12Ecc 6:10Pro 29:1 However, he refused to turn away. Therefore Abner with the back end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there and died in the same place. As many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still. 2Sa 3:272Sa 4:62Sa 20:102Sa 5:62Sa 20:12-13
But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. The sun went down when they had come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon. The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill. Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?” Jer 46:14Act 7:26Jer 46:102Sa 11:252Sa 2:142Sa 2:16Hos 11:6Isa 1:20
Joab said, “As God 2 lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother.” 1Sa 25:262Sa 2:14Pro 17:14Isa 47:7Job 27:2Luk 14:31-32Pro 15:1Pro 20:18 So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still and pursued Israel no more, and they fought no more. Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; and they passed over the Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and came to Mahanaim. 2Sa 2:8Sng 2:17
Joab returned from following Abner; and when he had gathered all the people together, nineteen men of David’s and Asahel were missing. But David’s servants had struck Benjamin and Abner’s men so that three hundred sixty men died. 1Ki 20:112Sa 3:1 They took up Asahel and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was in Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all night, and the day broke on them at Hebron. 1Ch 2:13-161Sa 17:582Ch 16:142Ch 21:12Sa 5:1Pro 22:29