2 Samuel 3:27 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

2 And when they had buried Abner in Hebron, king David lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner: and all the people also wept.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside to the center of the gate to speak to him privately, and there he smote Abner in the abdomen, so that he died to avenge the blood of Asahel, Joab's brother.

American Standard Version (1901)

And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

Common English Bible

When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside next to the gate to speak with him in private. But instead Joab stabbed Abner in the stomach, and he died for shedding the blood of Asahel, Joab’s brother.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And when Abner had returned to Hebron, Joab took him alone to the middle of the gate, so that he might speak to him, but with deceit. And there, he stabbed him in the groin, and he died, in revenge for the blood of Asahel, his brother.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside to the middle of the gate, to speak to him treacherously. And he stabbed him there in the groin: and he died, in revenge of the blood of Asael his brother.

2 Samuel 3:27 Cross References

2 Samuel 13:26

1 Then the king rose up, and rent his garments: and fell upon the ground, and all his servants, that stood about him, rent their garments.

2 Samuel 19:13

8 They passed the fords before the king, that they might help over the king's household, and do according to his commandment. And Semei the son of Gera falling down before the king, when he was come over the Jordan,

2 Samuel 3:26

1 And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him: Rend your garments, and gird yourselves with sackcloths, and mourn before the funeral of Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.

2 Samuel 3:28

3 And the king mourning and lamenting over Abner, said: Not as cowards are wont to die, hath Abner died.

2 Samuel 4:1

And they entered into the house secretly taking ears of corn, and Rechab and Baana his brother stabbed him in the groin, and fled away.

1 Kings 2:32

7 For on what day soever thou shalt go out, and shalt pass over the brook Cedron, know that thou shalt be put to death: thy blood shall be upon thy own head:

1 Kings 2:5

0 So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

1 Chronicles 27:21

6 And over the tillage, and the husbandmen, who tilled the ground, was Ezri the son of Chelub:

Proverbs 26:26

Open rebuke is better than hidden love.

Jeremiah 41:2

0 Then Ismahel carried away captive all the remnant of the people that were in Masphath : the king's daughters, and all the people that remained in Masphath: whom Nabuzardan the general of the army had committed to Godolias the son of Ahicam. And Ismahel the son of Nathanias took them, and he departed, to go over to the children of Ammon.

Numbers 35:19

4 And this be proved in the hearing of the people, and the cause be debated between him that struck, and the next of kin:

Numbers 35:20

5 The innocent shall be delivered from the hand of the revenger, and shall be brought back by sentence into the city, to which he had fled, and he shall abide there until the death of the high priest, that is anointed with the holy oil.

Deuteronomy 27:24

Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed in the field.