{"id":4533,"date":"2021-04-22T12:08:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T17:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=4533"},"modified":"2021-04-22T12:14:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T17:14:56","slug":"swifter-than-a-gazelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=4533","title":{"rendered":"Swifter Than a Gazelle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(2 Sam. 2:17-28)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were Joab, Abishae and Asahel <br>And Asahel was swift as a gazelle <br>Pursuing Abner not turning left or right <br>Abner looked behind and said, &#8220;Is that really you?&#8221; <br>&#8220;Chasin&#8217; my ass!&nbsp; So what I gonna do?&#8221; <br>He answered and said, &#8220;Yeah, it is I&#8221; (20) <br>Abner said, &#8220;Well you gonna have to die!&#8221; <br>But Asahel refused and Abner stuck him in the belly <br>So the spear came right on out his back! (23) <br>He fell right there dead on the spot <br>And every one walking by had to stop. <br>Then after Abner went Joab and Abishai <br>And when the sun went down, they did not sigh. (24) <br>They finally made it to the hill of Ammah (24) <br>By the way of the wilderness in front of Giah. <br>Right behind Abner where the sons of Benjamin (25)  <br>And Abner said to Joab, &#8220;Is this ever gonna end?&#8221; (26) <br>When we gonna tell &#8217;em to stop killin&#8217; all their brothers? <br>Looked around and thinkin&#8217; &#8217;bout the others. <br>They quit that day from all that nasty killin&#8217; (28) <br>Seems the Devil lost his sway, that wicked villain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 April, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(2 Sam. 2:17-28) There were Joab, Abishae and Asahel And Asahel was swift as a gazelle Pursuing Abner not turning left or right Abner looked behind and said, &#8220;Is that really you?&#8221; &#8220;Chasin&#8217; my ass!&nbsp; So what I gonna do?&#8221; He answered and said, &#8220;Yeah, it is I&#8221; (20) Abner said, &#8220;Well you gonna have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,30,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4535,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions\/4535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}