18. Act now! For the Lord has said to David, ‘By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel from the Philistines and from all their enemies.’”
19. Then Abner spoke privately with the Benjaminites. Abner also went to Hebron to inform David privately of all that Israel and the entire house of Benjamin had agreed to.
20. When Abner, accompanied by twenty men, came to David in Hebron, David prepared a banquet for Abner and the men who were with him.