2 Samuel 2:14 Cross References - Coverdale

¹⁴ And Abner sayde vnto Ioab: Let the yonge me get them vp, and playe before vs. Ioab sayde: Let them aryse.

¹⁷ And there arose a sore harde battayll the same daye. But Abner and the men of Israel were put to flighte of Dauids seruauntes.

²⁶ And Abner called vnto Ioab, and sayde: Shal the swerde the deuoure without ende? Knowest thou not, that it wyll be bytter at the last? How longe wil it be or thou saie vnto the people, that they leaue of from their brethre: ²⁷ Ioab sayde: As truly as God lyueth yf thou haddest sayde thus daye in the morninge, the people had ceassed euery one from his brother.

²³ A foole doth wickedly & maketh but a sporte of it: neuertheles it is wysdome for a man to bewarre of soch.

¹⁴ He yt soweth discorde & strife, is like one yt dyggeth vp a water broke: but an open enemie is like the water yt breaketh out & reneth abrode.

¹⁸ Thorow councell the thinges that men deuyse go forwarde: & with discrecion ought warres to be taken in honde.

⁸ Be not haistie to go to the lawe, lest happlie thou ordre yi self so at ye last, yt thy neghbor put ye to shame.

¹⁸ Like as one shuteth deadly arowes and dartes out of a preuy place, euen so doth a dyssembler with his neghboure, ¹⁹ And then sayeth he: I dyd it but in sporte.