2 Samuel 2:25-27

Revised Geneva Translation

²⁵ And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and were a troop, and stood on the top of a hill.

²⁶ Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? “Do you not know that it will be bitterness in the end? How long, then, shall it be before you bid the people return from following their brethren?”

²⁷ And Joab said, “As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely the people would have departed in the morning, each one returning from following his brother.”