2 Samuel 2:26

Then Abner called to Joab,.... For having now a troop of men with him, he could stop with the greater safety; and being on an hill, and perhaps Joab on one opposite to him, could call to him, so as to…

Here, I. Abner, being conquered, meanly begs for a cessation of arms. He rallied the remains of his forces on the top of a hill (Sa2 2:25), as if he would have made head again, but becomes a humble…

that it will be bitterness in the latter end Either, that the final struggle of desperate men when driven to bay will be the fiercest; or, that any further prosecution of the contest will merely…