²⁶ And Abner called to^▵ Joab and said, Shall the sword devour perpetually? Knowest thou not that it will be bitterness afterwards? and how^▵ long wilt thou not say unto the people that they return from after their brothers?

⁸ From Tappuah the border went seaward to the Brook Kanah; and the goings out of it were toward the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim according to their families.