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Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?”

2 Samuel 2:26 · WEB

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ગુજરાતી2 શમુએલ ૨:૨૬
ત્યારે આબ્નેરે યોઆબને હાંક મારીને કહ્યું, શું તલવાર હંમેશા સંહાર કર્યા કરશે? શું તું જાણતો નથી કે તેનો અંત તો કડવો થશે? તારા જે માણસો તેઓના ભાઈઓની પાછળ પડ્યા છે તેઓને ત્યાંથી પાછા વળી જવાનું કહેવાને તું ક્યાં સુધી રાહ જોઈશ?”
हिन्दी2 शमूएल २:२६
तब अब्नेर योआब को पुकारके कहने लगा, “क्या तलवार सदा मारती रहे? क्या तू नहीं जानता कि इसका फल दुःखदाई होगा? तू कब तक अपने लोगों को आज्ञा न देगा, कि अपने भाइयों का पीछा छोड़कर लौटो?”

In context

24But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. The sun went down when they had come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.

25The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill.

26Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?”

27Joab 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.”

28So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still and pursued Israel no more, and they fought no more.

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