Quotes about Confrontation
‘Who are you?’ he asked. So I told him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’
- 2 Samuel 1:8
So David asked him, “Why were you not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed?”
- 2 Samuel 1:14
Then each man grabbed his opponent by the head and thrust his sword into his opponent’s side, and they all fell together. So this place, which is in Gibeon, is called Helkath-hazzurim.
- 2 Samuel 2:16
The battle that day was intense, and Abner and the men of Israel were defeated by the servants of David.
- 2 Samuel 2:17
And Abner glanced back and said, “Is that you, Asahel?” “It is,” Asahel replied.
- 2 Samuel 2:20
So Abner told him, “Turn to your right or to your left, seize one of the young men, and take his equipment for yourself.” But Asahel would not stop chasing him.
- 2 Samuel 2:21
Once again, Abner warned Asahel, “Stop chasing me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How could I show my face to your brother Joab?”
- 2 Samuel 2:22
But Asahel refused to turn away; so Abner thrust the butt of his spear into his stomach, and it came out his back, and he fell dead on the spot. And every man paused when he came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died.
- 2 Samuel 2:23
Then Abner called out to Joab: “Must the sword devour forever? Do you not realize that this will only end in bitterness? How long before you tell the troops to stop pursuing their brothers?”
- 2 Samuel 2:26
but they had struck down 360 Benjamites who were with Abner.
- 2 Samuel 2:31
So Joab went to the king and said, “What have you done? Look, Abner came to you. Why did you dismiss him? Now he is getting away!
- 2 Samuel 3:24
When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside into the gateway, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died on account of the blood of Joab’s brother Asahel.
- 2 Samuel 3:27