2 Samuel 2 - Bíblia Online

Depois disto consultou Davi a Jeová, dizendo: Subirei a alguma das cidades de Judá? Respondeu-lhe Jeová: Sobe. Perguntou Davi: Para onde subirei? Respondeu Jeová: Para Hebrom. 
Subiu Davi, e também suas mulheres, Ainoã a jezreelita e Abigail que fora mulher de Nabal o carmelita. 
Davi fez subir os homens que estavam com ele, cada um com a sua família; e habitaram nas cidades de Hebrom. 
Vieram os homens de Judá, e ungiram ali a Davi rei sobre a casa de Judá. Noticiaram a Davi que os homens de Jabes-Gileade tinham sepultado a Saul. 
Então enviou Davi mensageiros aos homens de Jabes-Gileade, e disse-lhes: Benditos sejais vós de Jeová, porque fizestes esta beneficência ao vosso senhor, a Saul, e o sepultastes. 
Agora use Jeová de beneficência e fidelidade para convosco; eu também vos farei o bem, porque fizestes isto. 
Agora esforcem-se as vossas mãos, e sede homens de valor, porque Saul, vosso senhor, é morto, e os da casa de Judá me ungiram por seu rei. 
Abner, filho de Ner, capitão do exército de Saul, tomara a Is-Bosete, filho de Saul, e o fizera passar a Maanaim. 
Depois o constituiu rei sobre Gileade, sobre os asuritas, sobre Jezreel, sobre Efraim, sobre Benjamim e sobre todo o Israel. 
(Tinha Is-Bosete, filho de Saul, quarenta anos quando começou a reinar sobre Israel, e reinou dois anos.) Só a casa de Judá seguiu a Davi. 
Foi o tempo que reinou Davi em Hebrom sobre a casa de Judá sete anos e seis meses. 
Abner, filho de Ner, com os servos de Is-Bosete, filho de Saul, saiu de Maanaim para Gibeom. 
Joabe, filho de Zeruia, e os servos de Davi saíram e encontraram-se com eles ao tanque de Gibeom. Pararam, estes da banda de cá do tanque, e aqueles da banda de lá. 
Disse Abner a Joabe: Levantem-se os moços e batam-se diante de nós. Respondeu Joabe: Levantem-se. 
Levantaram-se e passaram em igual número: doze homens por Benjamim, e por Is-Bosete, filho de Saul, e doze dos servos de Davi. 
Cada um, tomando pela cabeça ao seu competidor, meteu-lhe a espada no lado; assim caíram juntos. Pelo que aquele lugar que está em Gibeom foi chamado Helcate-Hazurim. 
Seguiu-se uma crua peleja naquele dia, e foi derrotado Abner, e os homens de Israel, diante dos servos de Davi. 
Estavam ali os três filhos de Zeruia: Joabe, Abisai e Asael. Asael era ligeiro de pés, como uma gazela selvagem. 
Perseguia Asael a Abner, e não declinou de detrás de Abner nem para a direita nem para a esquerda. 
Então olhou Abner para trás e perguntou: És tu Asael? Ele respondeu: Sou eu. 
Disse-lhe Abner: Desvia-te para a direita ou para a esquerda, apanha um dos mancebos e toma-lhe os despojos. Asael, porém, não quis desviar-se de detrás dele. 
Abner tornou a dizer a Asael: Desvia-te de detrás de mim, por que te feriria e daria contigo em terra? como levantaria eu o meu rosto diante de Joabe, teu irmão? 
Todavia recusou desviar-se; pelo que Abner, com um golpe de lança para trás, o feriu na barriga, e saiu-lhe a lança pelas costas. Asael caiu ali e morreu no mesmo lugar. Todos quantos chegavam ao lugar em que Asael caiu e morreu, paravam. 
Mas Joabe e Abisai perseguiram a Abner, e pôs-se o sol, quando chegaram ao outeiro de Amá, que está defronte de Gia, pelo caminho do deserto de Gibeão. 
Os filhos de Benjamim ajuntaram-se atrás de Abner e, cerrados num batalhão, fizeram alto no cume dum outeiro. 
Então gritou Abner a Joabe e disse: Devorará a espada para sempre? não sabes que serão amargas as suas conseqüências? até quando te demorarás em ordenar ao povo que deixe de perseguir a seus irmãos? 
Joabe respondeu: Pela vida de Deus, se não tivesses falado, só amanhã cedo o povo cessaria de perseguir, cada um a seu irmão. 
Tocou Joabe a trombeta, e fez alto todo o povo; não perseguiram mais a Israel, nem tão pouco pelejaram mais. 
Abner e seus homens marcharam toda aquela noite pela Arabá; passaram o Jordão e, percorrido todo o Bitrom, chegaram a Maanaim. 
Joabe voltou de seguir a Abner; e tendo ele ajuntado todo o povo, faltavam dos servos de Davi dezenove homens, e Asael. 
Mas os servos de Davi tinham ferido trezentos e sessenta homens dentre os de Benjamim, e dentre os de Abner, de tal maneira que morreram. 
Levantaram a Asael, e enterraram-no na sepultura de seu pai, o qual estava em Belém. Marcharam toda a noite Joabe e seus homens, e amanheceu-lhes o dia em Hebrom. 

Now after this, David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go up into any of the towns of Judah? And the Lord said to him, Go up. And David said, Where am I to go? And he said, To Hebron. 
So David went there, taking with him his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel. 
And David took all his men with him, every man with his family: and they were living in the towns round Hebron. 
And the men of Judah came there, and with the holy oil made David king over the people of Judah. And word came to David that it was the men of Jabesh-gilead who put Saul's body in its last resting-place. 
And David sent to the men of Jabesh-gilead and said to them, May the Lord give you his blessing, because you have done this kind act to Saul your lord, and have put his body to rest! 
May the Lord be good and true to you: and I myself will see that your kind act is rewarded, because you have done this thing. 
Then let your hands be strong, and have no fear: though Saul your lord is dead, the people of Judah have made me their king. 
Now Abner, the son of Ner, captain of Saul's army, had taken Saul's son Ish-bosheth over to Mahanaim, 
And made him king over Gilead and the Asherites and over Jezreel and Ephraim and Benjamin, that is, over all Israel. 
(Saul's son Ish-bosheth was forty years old when he became king over Israel, and he was ruler for two years.) But Judah was on the side of David. 
And the time when David was king in Hebron over the people of Judah was seven years and six months. 
And Abner, the son of Ner, with the servants of Saul's son Ish-bosheth, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon. 
And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out and came face to face with them by the pool of Gibeon; and they took up their position, facing one another on opposite sides of the pool. 
And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men give a test of their strength before us. And Joab said, Let them do so. 
So they got up and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin and Ish-bosheth and twelve of the servants of David. 
And every one got the other by the head, driving his sword into the other's side, so they all went down together: and that place was named the Field of Sides, and it is in Gibeon. 
And there was hard fighting that day; and Abner and the men of Israel gave way before the servants of David. 
There were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab and Abishai and Asahel: and Asahel was as quick-footed as a roe of the fields. 
Asahel went running after Abner, not turning to the right or to the left. 
Then Abner, looking back, said, Is it you, Asahel? And he said, It is I. 
And Abner said, Then go to the right or to the left and put your hands on one of the fighting-men and take his arms. But Asahel would not be turned away from going after Abner. 
Then again Abner said to Asahel, Go to one side, do not keep on coming after me: why will you make me put an end to you? for then I will be shamed before your brother Joab. 
But still he did not go to one side: so Abner gave him a back blow in the stomach with his spear, so that the spear came out at his back; and he went down on the earth, wounded to death: and all those who came to the place where Asahel went down dead, came to a stop. 
But Joab and Abishai went after Abner: and the sun went down when they came to the hill of Ammah, which is to the east of the road through the waste land of Geba. 
And the men of Benjamin came together after Abner in one band, and took their places on the top of a hill. 
Then crying out to Joab, Abner said, Are fighting and destruction to go on for ever? do you not see that the end will only be bitter? how long will it be before you send the people back and make them give up attacking their countrymen? 
And Joab said, By the living God, if you had not given the word, the people would have gone on attacking their countrymen till the morning. 
So Joab had a horn sounded, and all the people came to a stop, and gave up going after Israel and fighting them. 
And all that night Abner and his men went through the Arabah; they went over Jordan and through all Bithron and came to Mahanaim. 
And Joab came back from fighting Abner: and when he had got all his men together, it was seen that nineteen of David's men, in addition to Asahel, were not with them. 
But David's men had put to death three hundred and sixty of the men of Benjamin and of Abner's men 
And they took Asahel's body and put it in the last resting-place of his father in Beth-lehem. And Joab and his men, travelling all night, came to Hebron at dawn. 

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