2 Samuel 3:34

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Your hands were not bound, your feet were not fettered. You fell as one falls before the wicked.' And all the people wept over him.

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  • Judg 16:21 : 21 Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and took him down to Gaza. Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding grain in the prison.
  • 2 Sam 1:12 : 12 They mourned, wept, and fasted until evening for Saul, for Jonathan his son, for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
  • Job 24:14 : 14 At daybreak, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy, and at night, he is like a thief.
  • Ps 107:10-11 : 10 Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in misery and chains. 11 For they had rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High.
  • Hos 6:9 : 9 As marauders lie in wait for someone, so a band of priests murder on the road to Shechem; they commit heinous crimes.

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  • 2 Sam 3:30-33
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    30(Joab and his brother Abishai killed Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.)

    31Then David said to Joab and all the people with him, 'Tear your clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourn for Abner.' And King David himself walked behind the bier.

    32They buried Abner in Hebron. The king wept aloud at Abner’s tomb, and all the people wept with him.

    33The king sang a lament for Abner, saying: 'Should Abner die as a fool dies?

  • 2 Sam 3:36-38
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    36All the people took note of this, and it pleased them, just as everything the king did pleased them.

    37So on that day all the people and all Israel knew that the king had no part in the killing of Abner son of Ner.

    38Then the king said to his men, 'Do you not realize that a commander and a great man has fallen in Israel this day?'

  • 2 Sam 4:1
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    1When Saul's son heard that Abner had died in Hebron, his courage failed, and all of Israel was shaken.

  • 1 Sam 26:14-16
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    14Then David called out to the troops and to Abner son of Ner, saying, "Won't you answer, Abner?" Abner replied, "Who are you calling to the king?"

    15David said to Abner, "Aren't you a man? And who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not guarded your lord the king? Someone came to destroy your lord the king.

    16What you have done is not good. As surely as the LORD lives, you deserve to die because you did not guard your lord, the LORD's anointed. Now, look around! Where are the king's spear and the jar of water that were near his head?"

  • 2 Sam 13:36
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    36As he finished speaking, the king’s sons arrived, weeping loudly. The king and all his servants also wept bitterly.

  • 2 Sam 3:23-26
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    23When Joab and all the soldiers who were with him arrived, they were told, 'Abner son of Ner came to the king, and the king sent him away in peace.'

    24So Joab went to the king and said, 'What have you done? Look, Abner came to you. Why did you let him go? Now he is gone!'

    25'You know Abner son of Ner! He came to deceive you and to learn about your comings and goings and everything you are doing.'

    26Joab then left David and sent messengers after Abner, who brought him back from the cistern at Sirah. But David knew nothing about it.

  • 2 Sam 19:1-2
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    1The king was deeply moved and went up to the upper room over the gate and wept. As he went, he said, "My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died in your place, Absalom, my son, my son!"

    2Joab was told, "The king is weeping and mourning over Absalom."

  • 2 Sam 1:11-12
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    11Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and all the men who were with him did the same.

    12They mourned, wept, and fasted until evening for Saul, for Jonathan his son, for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

  • 2 Sam 3:8-9
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    8Abner became very angry over Ishbosheth's words and said, 'Am I a dog's head at Judah's disposal? Today I am loyal to the house of Saul your father, to his relatives and friends, and I have not delivered you into David's hand. Yet now you accuse me of sinning with this woman!'

    9May God deal with Abner, be it ever so severely, if I do not carry out what the Lord swore to David.

  • 2 Sam 4:12
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    12So David commanded his young men, and they killed them. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies by the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in Abner's tomb in Hebron.

  • 2 Sam 3:28
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    28Later, when David heard about this, he declared, 'I and my kingdom are forever innocent before the LORD regarding the blood of Abner son of Ner.

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    25How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan lies slain on your high places.

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    27How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war have perished!

  • 1 Kgs 2:32
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    32The LORD will bring back his blood on his own head, because he struck down two men more righteous and better than himself—Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel's army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah's army—killing them with the sword without my father David knowing it.

  • 2 Sam 16:8-9
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    8The Lord has repaid you for all the bloodshed in the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned. The Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. You are now caught in your own evil, for you are a man of bloodshed."

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    4Then David and the people who were with him lifted their voices and wept until they could weep no more because they had no strength left.

  • 2 Sam 2:31
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    31But David’s men had struck down three hundred and sixty men from Benjamin and Abner’s followers, who died in battle.

  • 2 Sam 19:4-5
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    4The people stole away into the city that day, as men who are ashamed steal away when they flee from battle.

    5The king covered his face and cried out in a loud voice, "My son Absalom! Absalom, my son, my son!"

  • 2 Sam 2:22-23
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    22Again Abner said to Asahel, 'Turn aside from following me. Why should I strike you down? How could I then show my face to your brother Joab?'

    23But Asahel refused to turn aside. So Abner struck him in the stomach with the butt of his spear, and the spear came out through his back. He fell there and died on the spot. And all who came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died stood still.

  • 1 Sam 17:57
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    57As soon as David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul, with the Philistine's head still in his hand.

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    17David sang this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan:

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    14David asked him, 'How is it that you were not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD's anointed?'

    15Then David called one of his young men and said, 'Come here and strike him down.' So he struck him, and he died.

  • 1 Kgs 2:5
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    5Moreover, you know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me—how he killed the two commanders of Israel's armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. He shed their blood as if in war during a time of peace, staining his belt and sandals with the blood.

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    17The battle that day was fierce, and Abner and the men of Israel were defeated by the servants of David.

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    11'This day you have seen with your own eyes how the LORD delivered you into my hands in the cave. Some urged me to kill you, but I spared you and said, "I will not lay my hand on my lord because he is the LORD’s anointed."'

  • 2 Sam 19:28
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    28'Moreover, he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like an angel of God, so do what seems good to you.'

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