2 Samuel 2:20
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New International Version (©1984)
Abner looked behind him and asked, "Is that you, Asahel?" "It is," he answered.

New Living Translation (©2007)
When Abner looked back and saw him coming, he called out, "Is that you, Asahel?" "Yes, it is," he replied.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then Abner looked behind him and said, “Is it you, Asahel?” And he answered, “It is I.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then Abner looked behind him and said, "Is that you, Asahel?" And he answered, "It is I."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When Abner looked back, he asked, "Are you Asahel?" "Yes," Asahel answered.

King James Bible
Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Art thou Asahel? And he answered, I am.

American King James Version
Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Are you Asahel? And he answered, I am.

American Standard Version
Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Is it thou, Asahel? And he answered, It is I.

Bible in Basic English
Then Abner, looking back, said, Is it you, Asahel? And he said, It is I.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Abner looked behind him, and said: Art thou Asael? And he answered: I am.

Darby Bible Translation
Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Art thou Asahel? And he said, I am.

English Revised Version
Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Is it thou, Asahel? And he answered, It is I.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Art thou Asahel? And he answered, I am.

World English Bible
Then Abner looked behind him, and said, "Is it you, Asahel?" He answered, "It is I."

Young's Literal Translation
And Abner looketh behind him, and saith, 'Art thou he -- Asahel?' and he saith, 'I am.'

Geneva Study Bible

Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Art thou Asahel? And he answered, I am.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

2:18-24 Death often comes by ways we least suspect. We are often betrayed by the accomplishments we are proud of! Asahel's swiftness, which he presumed so much upon, did him no service, but hastened his end.


2 Samuel 2:19 Asahel pursued Abner and did not turn to the right or to the left from following Abner.
2 Samuel 2:21 So Abner said to him, "Turn to your right or to your left, and take hold of one of the young men for yourself, and take for yourself his spoil." But Asahel was not willing to turn aside from following him. (NASB ©1995)

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Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Art thou Asahel? And he answered, I am.

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