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Yo'av agreed to stop! Why did Avner and his men go the entire night?
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Metzudas David: [Even so,] they feared lest Yo'av come upon them suddenly.
2)
What is "ha'Bisron"?
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Rashi: It is the name of a place. Radak - the border of Ever ha'Yarden is called so, for a reason that they knew.