2 Samuel 2 And it comes to pass afterwards, that David asks at Yahweh, saying, `Do I go up into one of the cities of Judah?' and Yahweh said unto him, `Go up.' And David said, `Whither do I go up?' and He said, `To Hebron..

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And it comes to pass afterwards, that David asks at Yahweh, saying, `Do I go up into one of the cities of Judah?' and Yahweh said unto him, `Go up.' And David said, `Whither do I go up?' and He said, `To Hebron.. ² And David goes up thither, and also his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail wife of Nabal the Carmelite;" ³ and his men who [are] with him has David brought up--a man and his household--and they dwell in the cities of Hebron. ⁴ And the men of Judah come, and anoint there David for king over the house of Judah; and they declare to David, saying, `The men of Jabesh-Gilead [are] they who buried Saul.. ⁵ And David sends messengers unto the men of Jabesh-Gilead, and said unto them, `Blessed [are] you of Yahweh, in that you have done this kindness with your lord, with Saul, that you bury him. ⁶ `And, now, Yahweh does with you kindness and truth, and also, I do with you this good because you have done this thing;" ⁷ and now, are your hands strong, and be you for sons of valor, for your lord Saul. [is] dead, and also--me have the house of Judah anointed for king over them.. ⁸ And Abner, son of Ner, head of the host which Saul has, has taken Ish-Bosheth, son of Saul, and causes him to pass over to Mahanaim, ⁹ and causes him to reign over Gilead, and over the Ashurite, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over Israel--all of it. ¹⁰ A son of forty years, [is] Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, in his reigning over Israel, and two years he has reigned, only the house of Judah have been after David. ¹¹ And the number of the days that David has been king in Hebron, over the house of Judah, is seven years and six months. ¹² And Abner son of Ner goes out, and servants of Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, from Mahanaim to Gibeon. ¹³ And Joab son of Zeruiah, and servants of David, have gone out, and they meet by the pool of Gibeon together, and sit down, these by the pool on this [side], and these by the pool on that. ¹⁴ And Abner said unto Joab, `Let the youths rise, I pray you, and they play before us;' and Joab said, `Let them rise.. ¹⁵ And they rise and pass over, in number twelve of Benjamin, even of Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David. ¹⁶ And they lay hold, each on the head of his companion, and his sword [is] in the side of his companion, and they fall together, and [one] calls that place Helkath-Hazzurim, which [is] in Gibeon, ¹⁷ and the battle is very hard on that day, and Abner is smitten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David. ¹⁸ And there are there three sons of Zeruiah, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel, and Asahel [is] light on his feet, as one of the roes which [are] in the field, ¹⁹ And Asahel pursues after Abner, and has not turned aside to go to the right or to the left, from after Abner. ²⁰ And Abner looks behind him, and said, `Are you he--Asahel?' and he said, `I [am].. ²¹ And Abner said to him, `Turn you aside to your right hand or to your left, and seize for you one of the youths, and take to you his armor;' and Asahel has not been willing to turn aside from after him. ²² And Abner adds again, saying unto Asahel, `Turn you aside from after me, why do I smite you to the earth? and how do I lift up my face unto Joab your brother?. ²³ And he refuses to turn aside, and Abner smites him with the hinder part of the spear unto the fifth [rib], and the spear comes out from behind him, and he falls there, and dies under it; and it comes to pass, every one who has come unto the place where Asahel has fallen and dies--they stand still. ²⁴ And Joab and Abishai pursue after Abner, and the sun has gone in, and they have come in unto the height of Ammah, which [is] on the front of Giah, the way of the wilderness of Gibeon. ²⁵ And the sons of Benjamin gather themselves together after Abner, and become one troop, and stand on the top of a certain height, ²⁶ and Abner calls unto Joab, and said, `For ever does the sword consume? have you not known that it is bitterness in the latter end? and till when do you not say to the people to turn back from after their brethren?. ²⁷ And Joab said, `Elohim lives! for unless you hadst spoken, surely then from the morning had the people gone up each from after his brother.. ²⁸ And Joab blows with a trumpet, and all the people stand still, and pursue no more after Israel, nor have they added any more to fight. ²⁹ And Abner and his men have gone through the plain all that night, and pass over the Jordan, and go on [through] all Bithron, and come in to Mahanaim. ³⁰ And Joab has turned back from after Abner, and gathers all the people, and there are lacking of the servants of David nineteen men, and Asahel;" ³¹ and the servants of David have smitten of Benjamin, even among the men of Abner, three hundred and sixty men--they died. ³² And they lift up Asahel, and bury him in the burying-place of his father, which [is] in Beth-Lehem, and they go all the night--Joab and his men--and it is light to them in Hebron.