2 Samuel 3:26

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Then Joab left David and sent messengers after Abner. They brought him back from the well of Sirah.(But David was not aware of it.)

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  • Prov 26:23-26 : 23 Like a coating of glaze over earthenware are fervent lips with an evil heart. 24 The one who hates others disguises it with his lips, but he stores up deceit within him. 25 When he speaks graciously, do not believe him, for there are seven abominations within him. 26 Though his hatred may be concealed by deceit, his evil will be uncovered in the assembly.
  • Prov 27:4-6 : 4 Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy? 5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love. 6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are excessive.

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  • 2 Sam 3:21-25
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    85%

    21Abner said to David,“Let me leave so that I may go and gather all Israel to my lord the king so that they may make an agreement with you. Then you will rule over all that you desire.” So David sent Abner away, and he left in peace.

    22Abner Is Killed Now David’s soldiers and Joab were coming back from a raid, bringing a great deal of plunder with them. Abner was no longer with David in Hebron, for David had sent him away and he had left in peace.

    23When Joab and all the army that was with him arrived, Joab was told:“Abner the son of Ner came to the king; he sent him away, and he left in peace!”

    24So Joab went to the king and said,“What have you done? Abner has come to you! Why would you send him away? Now he’s gone on his way!

    25You know Abner the son of Ner! Surely he came here to spy on you and to determine when you leave and when you return and to discover everything that you are doing!”

  • 2 Sam 3:27-28
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    27When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate as if to speak privately with him. Joab then stabbed him in the abdomen and killed him, avenging the shed blood of his brother Asahel.

    28When David later heard about this, he said,“I and my kingdom are forever innocent before the LORD of the shed blood of Abner son of Ner!

  • 2 Sam 3:30-31
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    30So Joab and his brother Abishai killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel in Gibeon during the battle.

    31David instructed Joab and all the people who were with him,“Tear your clothes! Put on sackcloth! Lament before Abner!” Now King David followed behind the funeral pallet.

  • 1 Kgs 2:31-32
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    31The king told him,“Do as he said! Strike him down and bury him. Take away from me and from my father’s family the guilt of Joab’s murderous, bloody deeds.

    32May the LORD punish him for the blood he shed; behind my father David’s back he struck down and murdered with the sword two men who were more innocent and morally upright than he– Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.

  • 2 Sam 2:21-24
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    21Abner said to him,“Turn aside to your right or to your left. Capture one of the soldiers and take his equipment for yourself!” But Asahel was not willing to turn aside from following him.

    22So Abner spoke again to Asahel,“Turn aside from following me! I do not want to strike you to the ground. How then could I show my face in the presence of Joab your brother?”

    23But Asahel refused to turn aside. So Abner struck him in the abdomen with the back end of his spear. The spear came out his back; Asahel collapsed on the spot and died there right before Abner. Everyone who now comes to the place where Asahel fell dead pauses in respect.

    24So Joab and Abishai chased Abner. At sunset they came to the hill of Ammah near Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon.

  • 2 Sam 3:37-38
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    37All the people and all Israel realized on that day that the killing of Abner son of Ner was not done at the king’s instigation.

    38Then the king said to his servants,“Do you not realize that a great leader has fallen this day in Israel?

  • 1 Kgs 2:5
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    5“You know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me– how he murdered two commanders of the Israelite armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. During peacetime he struck them down like he would in battle; when he shed their blood as if in battle, he stained the belt on his waist and the sandals on his feet.

  • 2 Sam 11:22
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    22So the messenger departed. When he arrived, he informed David of all the news that Joab had sent with him.

  • 2 Sam 11:18
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    18Then Joab sent a full battle report to David.

  • 2 Sam 2:29-31
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    29Abner and his men went through the rift valley all that night. They crossed the Jordan River and went through the whole region of Bitron and came to Mahanaim.

    30Now Joab returned from chasing Abner and assembled all the people. Nineteen of David’s soldiers were missing, in addition to Asahel.

    31But David’s soldiers had slaughtered the Benjaminites and Abner’s men– in all, 360 men had died!

  • 2 Sam 14:23
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    23So Joab got up and went to Geshur and brought Absalom back to Jerusalem.

  • 1 Sam 17:57
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    57So when David returned from striking down the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul. He still had the head of the Philistine in his hand.

  • 1 Sam 26:15
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    15David said to Abner,“Aren’t you a man? After all, who is like you in Israel? Why then haven’t you protected your lord the king? One of the soldiers came to kill your lord the king.

  • 2 Sam 3:6
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    6Abner Defects to David’s Camp As the war continued between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner was becoming more influential in the house of Saul.

  • 2 Sam 18:14
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    14Joab replied,“I will not wait around like this for you!” He took three spears in his hand and thrust them into the middle of Absalom while he was still alive in the middle of the oak tree.

  • 2 Sam 2:12
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    12Then Abner son of Ner and the servants of Ish-bosheth son of Saul went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

  • 2 Sam 3:33-34
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    33The king chanted the following lament for Abner:“Should Abner have died like a fool?

    34Your hands were not bound, and your feet were not put into irons. You fell the way one falls before criminals.”All the people wept over him again.

  • 2 Sam 14:1
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    1David Permits Absalom to Return to Jerusalem Now Joab son of Zeruiah realized that the king longed to see Absalom.

  • 2 Sam 3:9
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    9God will severely judge Abner if I do not do for David exactly what the LORD has promised him,

  • 2 Sam 3:16-17
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    16Her husband went along behind her, weeping all the way to Bahurim. Finally Abner said to him,“Go back!” So he returned home.

    17Abner advised the elders of Israel,“Previously you were wanting David to be your king.

  • 2 Sam 20:10-11
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    10Amasa did not protect himself from the knife in Joab’s other hand, and Joab stabbed him in the abdomen, causing Amasa’s intestines to spill out on the ground. There was no need to stab him again; the first blow was fatal. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bicri.

    11One of Joab’s soldiers who stood over Amasa said,“Whoever is for Joab and whoever is for David, follow Joab!”

  • 2 Sam 3:12
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    12Then Abner sent messengers to David saying,“To whom does the land belong? Make an agreement with me, and I will do whatever I can to cause all Israel to turn to you.”

  • 2 Sam 11:16
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    16So as Joab kept watch on the city, he stationed Uriah at the place where he knew the best enemy soldiers were.

  • 2 Sam 1:15
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    15Then David called one of the soldiers and said,“Come here and strike him down!” So he struck him down, and he died.

  • 2 Sam 14:32
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    32Absalom said to Joab,“Look, I sent a message to you saying,‘Come here so that I can send you to the king with this message:“Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there.”’ Let me now see the face of the king. If I am at fault, let him put me to death!”

  • 2 Sam 11:6-7
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    6So David sent a message to Joab that said,“Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent Uriah to David.

    7When Uriah came to him, David asked about how Joab and the army were doing and how the campaign was going.

  • 2 Sam 14:29
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    29Then Absalom sent a message to Joab asking him to send him to the king, but Joab was not willing to come to him. So he sent a second message to him, but he still was not willing to come.

  • 2 Sam 2:17
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    17Now the battle was very severe that day; Abner and the men of Israel were overcome by David’s soldiers.

  • 1 Sam 26:4
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    4David sent scouts and verified that Saul had indeed arrived.

  • 2 Sam 11:10
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    10So they informed David,“Uriah has not gone down to his house.” So David said to Uriah,“Haven’t you just arrived from a journey? Why haven’t you gone down to your house?”

  • 2 Sam 20:13
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    13Once he had removed Amasa from the path, everyone followed Joab to pursue Sheba son of Bicri.

  • 1 Sam 26:7
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    7So David and Abishai approached the army at night and found Saul lying asleep in the entrenchment with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. Abner and the army were lying all around him.

  • 2 Sam 1:5
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    5David said to the young man who was telling him this,“How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”