TSK · 2 Samuel 2:26

Abner said to Joab, "Please let the young men arise and play before us!" Joab said, "Let them arise!"

Then David said to the messenger, "Thus you shall tell Joab, 'Don't let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.' Encourage him."

"How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?

The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

"I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

Destroyers are come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of Yahweh devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.

Declare in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say, Stand forth, and prepare; for the sword has devoured around you.

"The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, 'Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?'