SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:26
Y Abner dio voces a Joab, diciendo: ¿Consumirá el cuchillo perpetuamente? ¿No sabes tú que al cabo sigue amargura? ¿Hasta cuándo no has de decir al pueblo que se vuelvan de seguir a sus hermanos?
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 26. Then Abner called to Joab , etc.] 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 25-32 - Abner appeals to Joab concerning the miserable consequences of a civi war. Those who make light of such unnatural contests, will find tha they are bitterness to all concerned. How easy it is for men to us reason, when it makes for them, who would not use it, if it mad against them! See how the issue of things alter men's minds! The sam thing which looked pleasant in the morning, at night looked dismal Those who are most forward to enter into contention, will repent befor they have done with it, and had better leave it off before it be meddled with, as Solomon advises. This is true of every sin, oh tha men would consider it in time, that it will be bitterness in the latte end! Asahel's funeral is here mentioned. Distinctions are made betwee the dust of some and that of others; but in the resurrection n difference will be made, but between the godly and ungodly, which wil remain for ever __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויקרא 7121 אבנר 74 אל 413 יואב 3097 ויאמר 559 הלנצח 5331 תאכל 398 חרב 2719 הלוא 3808 ידעתה 3045 כי 3588 מרה 4751 תהיה 1961 באחרונה 314 ועד 5704 מתי 4970 לא 3808 תאמר 559 לעם 5971 לשׁוב 7725 מאחרי 310 אחיהם׃ 251
