2 Samuel 3:27

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When 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.

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  • 2 Sam 20:9-9 : 9 Joab said to Amasa,“How are you, my brother?” With his right hand Joab took hold of Amasa’s beard as if to greet him with a kiss. 10 Amasa 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.
  • 1 Kgs 2:5 : 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.
  • 1 Kgs 2:32 : 32 May 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.
  • Jer 41:2 : 2 Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him stood up, pulled out their swords, and killed Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan. Thus Ishmael killed the man that the king of Babylon had appointed to govern the country.
  • Jer 41:6-7 : 6 Ishmael son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them. He was pretending to cry as he walked along. When he met them, he said to them,“Come with me to meet Gedaliah son of Ahikam.” 7 But as soon as they were inside the city, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the men who were with him slaughtered them and threw their bodies in a cistern.
  • Deut 27:24 : 24 ‘Cursed is the one who kills his neighbor in private.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’
  • 2 Sam 2:19-23 : 19 Asahel chased Abner, without turning to the right or to the left as he followed Abner. 20 Then Abner turned and asked,“Is that you, Asahel?” He replied,“Yes it is!” 21 Abner 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. 22 So 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?” 23 But 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.

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  • 2 Sam 3:28-34
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    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!

    29May his blood whirl over the head of Joab and the entire house of his father! May the males of Joab’s house never cease to have someone with a running sore or a skin disease or one who works at the spindle or one who falls by the sword or one who lacks food!”

    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.

    32So they buried Abner in Hebron. The king cried loudly over Abner’s grave and all the people wept too.

    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 2:17-24
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    17Now the battle was very severe that day; Abner and the men of Israel were overcome by David’s soldiers.

    18The three sons of Zeruiah were there– Joab, Abishai, and Asahel.(Now Asahel was as quick on his feet as one of the gazelles in the field.)

    19Asahel chased Abner, without turning to the right or to the left as he followed Abner.

    20Then Abner turned and asked,“Is that you, Asahel?” He replied,“Yes it is!”

    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 3:22-26
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    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!”

    26Then Joab left David and sent messengers after Abner. They brought him back from the well of Sirah.(But David was not aware of it.)

  • 2 Sam 20:9-11
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    9Joab said to Amasa,“How are you, my brother?” With his right hand Joab took hold of Amasa’s beard as if to greet him with a kiss.

    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!”

  • 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 18:14-15
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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.

    15Then ten soldiers who were Joab’s armor bearers struck Absalom and finished him off.

  • 2 Sam 2:29-32
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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!

    32They took Asahel’s body and buried him in his father’s tomb at Bethlehem. Joab and his men then traveled all that night and reached Hebron by dawn.

  • 2 Sam 4:6-7
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    6They entered the house under the pretense of getting wheat and mortally wounded him in the stomach. Then Recab and his brother Baanah escaped.

    7They had entered the house while Ish-bosheth was resting on his bed in his bedroom. They mortally wounded him and then cut off his head. Taking his head, they traveled on the way of the rift valley all that night.

  • 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 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.

  • 1 Chr 11:20
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    20Abishai the brother of Joab was head of the three elite warriors. He killed three hundred men with his spear and gained fame along with the three elite warriors.

  • 2 Sam 18:11
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    11Joab replied to the man who was telling him this,“What! You saw this? Why didn’t you strike him down right on the spot? I would have given you ten pieces of silver and a commemorative belt!”

  • 2 Sam 4:11-12
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    11Surely when wicked men have killed an innocent man as he slept in his own house, should I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth?”

    12So David issued orders to the soldiers and they put them to death. Then they cut off their hands and feet and hung them near the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in the tomb of Abner in Hebron.

  • 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,

  • 1 Kgs 2:34
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    34So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up and executed Joab; he was buried at his home in the wilderness.

  • 2 Sam 3:37
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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.

  • 1 Kgs 11:15
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    15During David’s campaign against Edom, Joab, the commander of the army, while on a mission to bury the dead, killed every male in Edom.

  • 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 Kgs 2:25
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    25King Solomon then sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he killed Adonijah.

  • 2 Sam 4:1
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    1Ish-bosheth is killed When Ish-bosheth the son of Saul heard that Abner had died in Hebron, he was very disheartened, and all Israel was afraid.

  • Gen 4:8
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    8Cain said to his brother Abel,“Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

  • 2 Sam 23:18
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    18Abishai son of Zeruiah, the brother of Joab, was head of the three. He killed three hundred men with his spear and gained fame among the three.

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