2 Samuel 3:28

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

David heard about it later and said, ‘I and my kingdom are for ever innocent before the Lord concerning the blood of Abner son of Ner.

Cross References

Numbers 35:33

‘Do not defile the land where you live, for bloodshed defiles the land,  and there can be no atonement for the land because of the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of the person who shed it.

Matthew 27:24

When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that a riot was starting instead, he took some water, washed his hands in front of the crowd, and said, ‘I am innocent of this man’s blood.  See to it yourselves! ’

Exodus 21:12

‘Whoever strikes a person so that he dies must be put to death.

Genesis 9:6

Whoever sheds human blood, by humans his blood will be shed, for God made humans in his image.

Genesis 4:10

Then he said, ‘What have you done? Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground!

2 Samuel 1:16

For David had said to the Amalekite, ‘Your blood is on your own head  because your own mouth testified against you by saying, “I killed the Lord’s anointed.” ’

2 Samuel 3:27

When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside to the middle of the city gate, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died in revenge for the death of Asahel,  Joab’s brother.

2 Samuel 3:29

May it hang over Joab’s head and his father’s whole family, and may the house of Joab never be without someone who has a discharge or a skin disease,  or a man who can only work a spindle,  or someone who falls by the sword or starves.’

2 Samuel 16:8

The Lord has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul in whose place you became king, and the Lord has handed the kingdom over to your son Absalom. Look, you are in trouble because you’re a man of bloodshed! ’