For they all would have made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. But now, {\i O God}, strengthen thou my hands.\par
and I will come upon him while he is weary and weak-handed, and will make him afraid; and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only;
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.