2 Samuel 3:37 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³⁷ So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been the king's will to slay Abner the son of Ner.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁷ For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁷ For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not the king's will to slay Abner son of Ner.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁷ So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.

Common English Bible

³⁷ So on that day all the troops and all Israel knew that it wasn’t the king’s idea to kill Abner, Ner’s son.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁷ And every common person, and all of Israel, realized on that day that the killing of Abner, the son of Ner, had not been done by the king.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁷ And all the people, and all Israel understood that day that it was not the king's doing, that Abner the son of Ner was slain.

2 Samuel 3:37 Cross References

2 Samuel 16:7

And Shime-i said as he cursed, “Begone, begone, you man of blood, you worthless fellow!

2 Samuel 3:36

And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as everything that the king did pleased all the people.

2 Samuel 3:38

And the king said to his servants, “Do you not know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?

1 Kings 2:32

The Lord will bring back his bloody deeds upon his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and slew with the sword two men more righteous and better than himself, Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

1 Chronicles 27:21

for the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah; for Benjamin, Ja-asiel the son of Abner;

1 Samuel 14:50

and the name of Saul's wife was Ahino-am the daughter of Ahima-az. And the name of the commander of his army was Abner the son of Ner, Saul's uncle;