撒母耳记下 2:14

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

押尼珥對約押說：“讓年輕人起來，在我們面前比比武。”約押說：“好！叫他們起來。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
押 尼 珥 对 约 押 说 ： 让 少 年 人 起 来 ， 在 我 们 面 前 戏 耍 罢 ！ 约 押 说 ： 可 以 。

Contextual Overview

⁸ Abner son of Ner was the commander of Saul's army. Abner took Saul's son Ish-Bosheth to Mahanaim ⁹ and made him king of Gilead, Ashuri, Jezreel, Ephraim, Benjamin, and all Israel. ¹⁰ Saul's son Ish-Bosheth was forty years old when he became king over Israel, and he ruled two years. But the people of Judah followed David. ¹¹ David was king in Hebron for seven years and six months. ¹² Abner son of Ner and the servants of Ish-Bosheth son of Saul left Mahanaim and went to Gibeon. ¹³ Joab son of Zeruiah and David's men also went there and met Abner and Ish-Bosheth's men at the pool of Gibeon. Abner's group sat on one side of the pool; Joab's group sat on the other. ¹⁴ Abner said to Joab, "Let the young men have a contest here." Joab said, "Yes, let them have a contest." ¹⁵ Then the men got up and were counted—twelve from the people of Benjamin for Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, and twelve from David's men. ¹⁶ Each man grabbed the one opposite him by the head and stabbed him in the side with a knife. So the men fell down together. For that reason, that place in Gibeon is called the Field of Knives. ¹⁷ That day there was a terrible battle, and David's men defeated Abner and the Israelites.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

play before: 2 Samuel 2:17, 2 Samuel 2:26, 2 Samuel 2:27, Proverbs 10:23, Proverbs 17:14, Proverbs 20:18, Proverbs 25:8, Proverbs 26:18, Proverbs 26:19

Reciprocal: Judges 9:29 - Increase thine army 1 Samuel 14:12 - Come up to us 2 Kings 14:8 - Come 2 Chronicles 25:17 - let us see

Cross-References

Genesis 10:11
From there he went to Assyria, where he built the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, and Calah.

Genesis 10:22
The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.

Genesis 15:18
So on that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram and said, "I will give to your descendants the land between the river of Egypt and the great river Euphrates.

Genesis 25:18
His descendants lived from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt stretching toward Assyria. They often attacked the descendants of his brothers.

Deuteronomy 1:7
Get ready, and go to the mountain country of the Amorites, and to all the places around there—the Jordan Valley, the mountains, the western hills, the southern area, the seacoast, the land of Canaan, and Lebanon. Go as far as the great river, the Euphrates.

Deuteronomy 11:24
Everywhere you step will be yours. Your land will go from the desert to Lebanon and from the Euphrates River to the Mediterranean Sea.

Daniel 10:4
On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, I was standing beside the great Tigris River.

Revelation 9:14
The voice said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Free the four angels who are tied at the great river Euphrates."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Abner said to Joab,.... Perceiving he made no motion towards an engagement with him, his orders from David being only to act on the defensive, and avoid as much as possible the effusion of blood:

let the young men now arise, and play before us; with their swords after the manner of gladiators or duellers; that it might appear who were best skilled in the use of the sword, and who were the bravest, stoutest, and most courageous; and this he proposed in a way of bravado, and in order to bring on a battle, or to decide the quarrel between them; and this bloody barbarous exercise Abner calls play, as if it was a diversion and pastime to see men wounding and killing one another:

and Joab said, let them arise; he accepted the challenge, not caring to be hectored and bullied by Abner.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Play - (Compare Judges 16:25; 1 Samuel 18:7). Here, the word is applied to the serious game of war, to be played by twelve combatants on each side, with the two armies for spectators.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 2:14. Let the young men - play before us. — This was diabolical play, where each man thrust his sword into the body of the other, so that the twenty-four (twelve on each side) fell down dead together! But this was the signal for that sanguinary skirmish which immediately took place.