撒母耳记下 2:26

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

押尼珥對約押喊叫，說：“刀劍要不停地殺人嗎？你不知道結局是痛苦的嗎？你要等到甚麼時候才吩咐人民轉去，不追趕自己的兄弟呢？”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
押 尼 珥 呼 叫 约 押 说 ： 刀 剑 岂 可 永 远 杀 人 麽 ？ 你 岂 不 知 终 久 必 有 苦 楚 麽 ？ 你 要 等 何 时 才 叫 百 姓 回 去 、 不 追 赶 弟 兄 呢 ？

Contextual Overview

²⁵ The men of Benjamin came to Abner, and all stood together at the top of the hill. ²⁶ Abner shouted to Joab, "Must the sword kill forever? Surely you must know this will only end in sadness! Tell the people to stop chasing their own brothers!" ²⁷ Then Joab said, "As surely as God lives, if you had not said anything, the people would have chased their brothers until morning." ²⁸ Then Joab blew a trumpet, and his people stopped chasing the Israelites. They did not fight them anymore. ²⁹ Abner and his men marched all night through the Jordan Valley. They crossed the Jordan River, and after marching all day, arrived at Mahanaim. ³⁰ After he had stopped chasing Abner, Joab came back and gathered the people together. Asahel and nineteen of David's men were missing. ³¹ But David's men had killed three hundred sixty Benjaminites who had followed Abner. ³² David's men took Asahel and buried him in the tomb of his father at Bethlehem. Then Joab and his men marched all night. The sun came up as they reached Hebron.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Shall: 2 Samuel 2:14, Acts 7:26

sword: 2 Samuel 11:25, Isaiah 1:20, Jeremiah 2:30, Jeremiah 12:12, Jeremiah 46:10, Jeremiah 46:14, Hosea 11:6

it will be: 2 Samuel 2:16, Proverbs 17:14

how long: Job 18:2, Job 19:2, Psalms 4:2, Jeremiah 4:21

Reciprocal: Genesis 34:26 - edge Judges 9:38 - General Judges 21:6 - repented them 2 Samuel 18:7 - twenty thousand men 2 Chronicles 11:4 - against Psalms 133:1 - how good Proverbs 20:18 - and Proverbs 25:8 - hastily Jeremiah 47:6 - how long Galatians 5:15 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Abner called to Joab,.... For having now a troop of men with him, he could stop with the greater safety; and being on an hill, and perhaps Joab on one opposite to him, could call to him, so as to be heard:

and said, shall the sword devour for ever? slay men, and devour their blood. See Jeremiah 46:10. That he was not thoughtful of, nor concerned about, when he set the young men to fighting before the battle, and called it play to wound and shed the blood of each other; but now the battle going against him, he complains of the devouring sword; and though it had been employed but a few hours, it seemed long to him, a sort of an eternity:

knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? since it might issue in the death of himself, or of Joab, or of both, as it had in Asahel, or, however, in the death of a multitude of others; and which at last would cause bitter reflection in the prosecutors of the war:

how long shall it be then ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren? he pleads relation, that the men of Israel and the men of Judah were brethren; so they were by nation and religion, and therefore should not pursue one another to destruction; but who was the aggressor? It was Abner, that brought his forces against Judah; the men of David acted only on the defensive.