2 Samuel 2:27-30

The Battle of Gibeon

²⁷ And Joab said, "As God lives, if _s you had not spoken, surely the men would not have given up the pursuit of their brothers until the morning." ²⁸ So Joab blew the trumpet, and all the men stopped and pursued Israel no more, nor did they fight anymore.

²⁹ And Abner and his men went all that night through _t the Arabah. They crossed the Jordan, and marching the whole morning, they came to _u Mahanaim. ³⁰ Joab returned from the pursuit of Abner. And when he had gathered all the people together, there were missing from David's servants nineteen men besides Asahel.

1. Cross References
   2 Samuel 2:14
   And Abner said to Joab, "Let the young men arise and compete before us." And Joab said, "Let them arise.
   Proverbs 17:14
   The beginning of strife is like letting out water, so quit before the quarrel breaks out.
   
2. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 1:1
   These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
   
3. Cross References
   2 Samuel 2:8
   But Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim.
   Joshua 13:26
   And from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the territory of Debir.
   

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