2╙┴ 2:1 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THIS, THAT ─AVID ENQUIRED OF THE ╠╧╥─, SAYING, ╙HALL ╔ GO UP INTO ANY OF THE CITIES OF ╩UDAH? ┴ND THE ╠╧╥─ SAID UNTO HIM, ╟O UP. ┴ND ─AVID SAID, ╫HITHER SHALL ╔ GO UP? ┴ND HE SAID, ╒NTO ╚EBRON.
2╙┴ 2:2 ╙O ─AVID WENT UP THITHER, AND HIS TWO WIVES ALSO, ┴HINOAM THE ╩EZREELITESS, AND ┴BIGAIL ╬ABAL'S WIFE THE ├ARMELITE.
2╙┴ 2:3 ┴ND HIS MEN THAT WERE WITH HIM DID ─AVID BRING UP, EVERY MAN WITH HIS HOUSEHOLD: AND THEY DWELT IN THE CITIES OF ╚EBRON.
2╙┴ 2:4 ┴ND THE MEN OF ╩UDAH CAME, AND THERE THEY ANOINTED ─AVID KING OVER THE HOUSE OF ╩UDAH. ┴ND THEY TOLD ─AVID, SAYING, ╘HAT THE MEN OF ╩ABESHGILEAD WERE THEY THAT BURIED ╙AUL.
2╙┴ 2:5 ┴ND ─AVID SENT MESSENGERS UNTO THE MEN OF ╩ABESHGILEAD, AND SAID UNTO THEM, ┬LESSED BE YE OF THE ╠╧╥─, THAT YE HAVE SHEWED THIS KINDNESS UNTO YOUR LORD, EVEN UNTO ╙AUL, AND HAVE BURIED HIM.
2╙┴ 2:6 ┴ND NOW THE ╠╧╥─ SHEW KINDNESS AND TRUTH UNTO YOU: AND ╔ ALSO WILL REQUITE YOU THIS KINDNESS, BECAUSE YE HAVE DONE THIS THING.
2╙┴ 2:7 ╘HEREFORE NOW LET YOUR HANDS BE STRENGTHENED, AND BE YE VALIANT: FOR YOUR MASTER ╙AUL IS DEAD, AND ALSO THE HOUSE OF ╩UDAH HAVE ANOINTED ME KING OVER THEM.
2╙┴ 2:8 ┬UT ┴BNER THE SON OF ╬ER, CAPTAIN OF ╙AUL'S HOST, TOOK ╔SHBOSHETH THE SON OF ╙AUL, AND BROUGHT HIM OVER TO ═AHANAIM;
2╙┴ 2:9 ┴ND MADE HIM KING OVER ╟ILEAD, AND OVER THE ┴SHURITES, AND OVER ╩EZREEL, AND OVER ┼PHRAIM, AND OVER ┬ENJAMIN, AND OVER ALL ╔SRAEL.
2╙┴ 2:10 ╔SHBOSHETH ╙AUL'S SON WAS FORTY YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN OVER ╔SRAEL, AND REIGNED TWO YEARS. ┬UT THE HOUSE OF ╩UDAH FOLLOWED ─AVID.
2╙┴ 2:11 ┴ND THE TIME THAT ─AVID WAS KING IN ╚EBRON OVER THE HOUSE OF ╩UDAH WAS SEVEN YEARS AND SIX MONTHS.
2╙┴ 2:12 ┴ND ┴BNER THE SON OF ╬ER, AND THE SERVANTS OF ╔SHBOSHETH THE SON OF ╙AUL, WENT OUT FROM ═AHANAIM TO ╟IBEON.
2╙┴ 2:13 ┴ND ╩OAB THE SON OF ┌ERUIAH, AND THE SERVANTS OF ─AVID, WENT OUT, AND MET TOGETHER BY THE POOL OF ╟IBEON: AND THEY SAT DOWN, THE ONE ON THE ONE SIDE OF THE POOL, AND THE OTHER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE POOL.
2╙┴ 2:14 ┴ND ┴BNER SAID TO ╩OAB, ╠ET THE YOUNG MEN NOW ARISE, AND PLAY BEFORE US. ┴ND ╩OAB SAID, ╠ET THEM ARISE.
2╙┴ 2:15 ╘HEN THERE AROSE AND WENT OVER BY NUMBER TWELVE OF ┬ENJAMIN, WHICH PERTAINED TO ╔SHBOSHETH THE SON OF ╙AUL, AND TWELVE OF THE SERVANTS OF ─AVID.
2╙┴ 2:16 ┴ND THEY CAUGHT EVERY ONE HIS FELLOW BY THE HEAD, AND THRUST HIS SWORD IN HIS FELLOW'S SIDE; SO THEY FELL DOWN TOGETHER: WHEREFORE THAT PLACE WAS CALLED ╚ELKATHHAZZURIM, WHICH IS IN ╟IBEON.
2╙┴ 2:17 ┴ND THERE WAS A VERY SORE BATTLE THAT DAY; AND ┴BNER WAS BEATEN, AND THE MEN OF ╔SRAEL, BEFORE THE SERVANTS OF ─AVID.
2╙┴ 2:18 ┴ND THERE WERE THREE SONS OF ┌ERUIAH THERE, ╩OAB, AND ┴BISHAI, AND ┴SAHEL: AND ┴SAHEL WAS AS LIGHT OF FOOT AS A WILD ROE.
2╙┴ 2:19 ┴ND ┴SAHEL PURSUED AFTER ┴BNER; AND IN GOING HE TURNED NOT TO THE RIGHT HAND NOR TO THE LEFT FROM FOLLOWING ┴BNER.
2╙┴ 2:20 ╘HEN ┴BNER LOOKED BEHIND HIM, AND SAID, ┴RT THOU ┴SAHEL? ┴ND HE ANSWERED, ╔ AM.
2╙┴ 2:21 ┴ND ┴BNER SAID TO HIM, ╘URN THEE ASIDE TO THY RIGHT HAND OR TO THY LEFT, AND LAY THEE HOLD ON ONE OF THE YOUNG MEN, AND TAKE THEE HIS ARMOUR. ┬UT ┴SAHEL WOULD NOT TURN ASIDE FROM FOLLOWING OF HIM.
2╙┴ 2:22 ┴ND ┴BNER SAID AGAIN TO ┴SAHEL, ╘URN THEE ASIDE FROM FOLLOWING ME: WHEREFORE SHOULD ╔ SMITE THEE TO THE GROUND? HOW THEN SHOULD ╔ HOLD UP MY FACE TO ╩OAB THY BROTHER?
2╙┴ 2:23 ╚OWBEIT HE REFUSED TO TURN ASIDE: WHEREFORE ┴BNER WITH THE HINDER END OF THE SPEAR SMOTE HIM UNDER THE FIFTH RIB, THAT THE SPEAR CAME OUT BEHIND HIM; AND HE FELL DOWN THERE, AND DIED IN THE SAME PLACE: AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT AS MANY AS CAME TO THE PLACE WHERE ┴SAHEL FELL DOWN AND DIED STOOD STILL.
2╙┴ 2:24 ╩OAB ALSO AND ┴BISHAI PURSUED AFTER ┴BNER: AND THE SUN WENT DOWN WHEN THEY WERE COME TO THE HILL OF ┴MMAH, THAT LIETH BEFORE ╟IAH BY THE WAY OF THE WILDERNESS OF ╟IBEON.
2╙┴ 2:25 ┴ND THE CHILDREN OF ┬ENJAMIN GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER AFTER ┴BNER, AND BECAME ONE TROOP, AND STOOD ON THE TOP OF AN HILL.
2╙┴ 2:26 ╘HEN ┴BNER CALLED TO ╩OAB, AND SAID, ╙HALL THE SWORD DEVOUR FOR EVER? KNOWEST THOU NOT THAT IT WILL BE BITTERNESS IN THE LATTER END? HOW LONG SHALL IT BE THEN, ERE THOU BID THE PEOPLE RETURN FROM FOLLOWING THEIR BRETHREN?
2╙┴ 2:27 ┴ND ╩OAB SAID, ┴S ╟OD LIVETH, UNLESS THOU HADST SPOKEN, SURELY THEN IN THE MORNING THE PEOPLE HAD GONE UP EVERY ONE FROM FOLLOWING HIS BROTHER.
2╙┴ 2:28 ╙O ╩OAB BLEW A TRUMPET, AND ALL THE PEOPLE STOOD STILL, AND PURSUED AFTER ╔SRAEL NO MORE, NEITHER FOUGHT THEY ANY MORE.
2╙┴ 2:29 ┴ND ┴BNER AND HIS MEN WALKED ALL THAT NIGHT THROUGH THE PLAIN, AND PASSED OVER ╩ORDAN, AND WENT THROUGH ALL ┬ITHRON, AND THEY CAME TO ═AHANAIM.
2╙┴ 2:30 ┴ND ╩OAB RETURNED FROM FOLLOWING ┴BNER: AND WHEN HE HAD GATHERED ALL THE PEOPLE TOGETHER, THERE LACKED OF ─AVID'S SERVANTS NINETEEN MEN AND ┴SAHEL.
2╙┴ 2:31 ┬UT THE SERVANTS OF ─AVID HAD SMITTEN OF ┬ENJAMIN, AND OF ┴BNER'S MEN, SO THAT THREE HUNDRED AND THREESCORE MEN DIED.
2╙┴ 2:32 ┴ND THEY TOOK UP ┴SAHEL, AND BURIED HIM IN THE SEPULCHRE OF HIS FATHER, WHICH WAS IN ┬ETHLEHEM. ┴ND ╩OAB AND HIS MEN WENT ALL NIGHT, AND THEY CAME TO ╚EBRON AT BREAK OF DAY.
