2 Samuel 2:30 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁰And Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel.

2 Samuel 2:30 —

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 25-32)

Here, I. Abner, being conquered, meanly begs for a cessation of arms. He rallied the remains of his forces on the top of a hill (2 Sam. 2:25), as if he would have made head again, but becomes a humble supplicant to Joab for a little breathing-time, 2 Sam. 2:26. He that was most forward to fight was the first that had enough of it. He that made a jest of bloodshed (Let the young men arise and play…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 30)

19-32. Asahel pursued after Abner--To gain the general’s armor was deemed the grandest trophy. Asahel, ambitious of securing Abner’s, had outstripped all other pursuers, and was fast gaining on the retreating commander. Abner, conscious of possessing more physical power, and unwilling that there should be “blood” between himself and Joab, Asahel’s brother, twice urged him to desist. The impetuous…