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1 And it came to pass af­ter this, that David en­quired of the LORD, say­ing, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Ju­dah? And the LORD said unto him, Go up. And David said, Whith­er shall I go up? And he said, Unto He­bron. 2 So David went up thith­er, and his two wives al­so, Ahi­noam the Jezreel­itess, and Abi­gail Nabal's wife the Carmelite. 3 And his men that were with him did David bring up, ev­ery man with his house­hold: and they dwelt in the cities of He­bron. 4 And the men of Ju­dah came, and there they anoint­ed David king over the house of Ju­dah. And they told David, say­ing, That the men of Jabeshgilead were they that buried Saul. 5 And David sent mes­sen­gers unto the men of Jabeshgilead, and said unto them, Blessed be ye of the LORD, that ye have shewed this kind­ness unto your lord, even unto Saul, and have buried him. 6 And now the LORD shew kind­ness and truth unto you: and I also will re­quite you this kind­ness, be­cause ye have done this thing. 7 There­fore now let your hands be strength­ened, and be ye valiant: for your mas­ter Saul is dead, and also the house of Ju­dah have anoint­ed me king over them. 8 But Ab­n­er the son of Ner, cap­tain of Saul's host, took Ish­bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Ma­hanaim; 9 And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashu­rites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Ben­jamin, and over all Is­rael. 10 Ish­bosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he be­gan to reign over Is­rael, and reigned two years. But the house of Ju­dah fol­lowed David. 11 And the time 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 And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the ser­vants of David, went out, and met to­geth­er 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. 14 And Ab­n­er said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play be­fore us. And Joab said, Let them arise. 15 Then there arose and went over by num­ber twelve of Ben­jamin, which pertained to Ish­bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the ser­vants of David. 16 And they caught ev­ery one his fel­low by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down to­geth­er: where­fore that place was called Helkath­haz­zurim, which is in Gibeon. 17 And there was a very sore bat­tle that day; and Ab­n­er was beat­en, and the men of Is­rael, be­fore the ser­vants of David. 18 And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asa­hel: and Asa­hel was as light of foot as a wild roe. 19 And Asa­hel pur­sued af­ter Ab­n­er; and in go­ing he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from fol­low­ing Ab­n­er. 20 Then Ab­n­er looked be­hind him, and said, Art thou Asa­hel? And he an­swered, I am. 21 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. 22 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? 23 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. 24 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. 25 And the chil­dren of Ben­jamin gath­ered them­selves to­geth­er af­ter Ab­n­er, and be­came one troop, and stood on the top of an hill. 26 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? 27 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. 28 So Joab blew a trum­pet, and all the peo­ple stood still, and pur­sued af­ter Is­rael no more, nei­ther fought they any more. 29 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. 30 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. 31 But the ser­vants of David had smit­ten of Ben­jamin, and of Abner's men, ­so that three hun­dred and three­score men died. 32 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.