Joab the son of Sarvia began to number, but he finished not: because upon this there fell wrath upon Israel. And therefore the number of them that were numbered was not registered in the chronicles of king David.
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.