“Joab said, “As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother.””

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 2 Samuel 2 contains 32 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.