2 Samuel 3:26

World English Bible (2000)

When Joab had come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David didn't know it.

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  • Prov 26:23-26 : 23 Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart. 24 A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart. 25 When his speech is charming, don't believe him; for there are seven abominations in his heart. 26 His malice may be concealed by deception, but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
  • Prov 27:4-6 : 4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy? 5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love. 6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

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  • 2 Sam 3:21-25
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    85%

    21 Abner said to David, "I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your soul desires." David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.

    22 Behold, the servants of David and Joab came from a foray, and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner was not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in peace.

    23 When Joab and all the army who was with him had come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has sent him away, and he is gone in peace.

    24 Then Joab came to the king, and said, "What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away, and he is quite gone?

    25 You know Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do."

  • 2 Sam 3:27-28
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    27 When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

    28 Afterward, when David heard it, he said, "I and my kingdom are guiltless before Yahweh forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.

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

    31 David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. King David followed the bier.

  • 1 Kgs 2:31-32
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    31 The king said to him, "Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father's house.

    32 Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn't know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

  • 2 Sam 2:21-24
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    21 Abner said to him, "Turn aside to your right hand or to your left, and grab one of the young men, and take his armor." But Asahel would not turn aside from following him.

    22 Abner said again to Asahel, "Turn aside from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then should I hold up my face to Joab your brother?"

    23 However he refused to turn aside. Therefore Abner with the back end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place. It happened, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.

    24 But Joab and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.

  • 2 Sam 3:37-38
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    37 So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner.

    38 The king said to his servants, "Don't you know that there a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?

  • 1 Kgs 2:5
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    5 "Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was about his waist, and in his shoes that were on his feet.

  • 2 Sam 11:22
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    22 So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.

  • 2 Sam 11:18
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    18 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;

  • 2 Sam 2:29-31
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    29 Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; and they passed over the Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and came to Mahanaim.

    30 Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel.

    31 But the servants of David had struck of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, [so that] three hundred sixty men died.

  • 2 Sam 14:23
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    23 So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

  • 1 Sam 17:57
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    57 As David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

  • 1 Sam 26:15
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    15 David said to Abner, "Aren't you a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord, the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord.

  • 2 Sam 3:6
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    6 It happened, while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong in the house of Saul.

  • 2 Sam 18:14
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    14 Then Joab said, "I'm not going to wait like this with you." He took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.

  • 2 Sam 2:12
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    12 Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

  • 2 Sam 3:33-34
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    33 The king lamented for Abner, and said, "Should Abner die as a fool dies?

    34 Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell." All the people wept again over him.

  • 2 Sam 14:1
    72%

    1 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom.

  • 2 Sam 3:9
    72%

    9 God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as Yahweh has sworn to David, I don't do even so to him;

  • 2 Sam 3:16-17
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    72%

    16 Her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, "Go! Return!" and he returned.

    17 Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, "In times past, you sought for David to be king over you.

  • 2 Sam 20:10-11
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    10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand. So he struck him with it in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn't strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

    11 There stood by him one of Joab's young men, and said, "He who favors Joab, and he who is for David, let him follow Joab!"

  • 2 Sam 3:12
    72%

    12 Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, "Whose is the land?" and saying, "Make your alliance with me, and behold, my hand shall be with you, to bring all Israel around to you."

  • 2 Sam 11:16
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    16 It happened, when Joab kept watch on the city, that he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were.

  • 2 Sam 1:15
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    15 David called one of the young men, and said, "Go near, and fall on him." He struck him, so that he died.

  • 2 Sam 14:32
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    32 Absalom answered Joab, "Behold, I sent to you, saying, 'Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me."'"

  • 2 Sam 11:6-7
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    6 David sent to Joab, [saying], "Send me Uriah the Hittite." Joab sent Uriah to David.

    7 When Uriah was come to him, David asked of him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.

  • 2 Sam 14:29
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    29 Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king; but he would not come to him: and he sent again a second time, but he would not come.

  • 2 Sam 2:17
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    17 The battle was very severe that day: and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.

  • 1 Sam 26:4
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    4 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul had certainly come.

  • 2 Sam 11:10
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    10 When they had told David, saying, "Uriah didn't go down to his house," David said to Uriah, "Haven't you come from a journey? Why didn't you go down to your house?"

  • 2 Sam 20:13
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    13 When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

  • 1 Sam 26:7
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    7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay around him.

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