2 Samuel 20:10

Good News Translation

Amasa was not on guard against the sword that Joab was holding in his other hand, and Joab stabbed him in the belly, and his insides spilled out on the ground. He died immediately, and Joab did not have to strike again. Then Joab and his brother Abishai went on after Sheba.

Cross References

Genesis 4:8

Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let's go out in the fields.” When they were out in the fields, Cain turned on his brother and killed him.

2 Samuel 2:23

But Asahel would not quit; so Abner, with a backward thrust of his spear, struck him through the stomach so that the spear came out at his back. Asahel dropped to the ground dead, and everyone who came to the place where he was lying stopped and stood there.

2 Samuel 20:9

Joab said to Amasa, “How are you, my friend?” and took hold of his beard with his right hand in order to kiss him.

2 Samuel 3:27

When Abner arrived in Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate, as though he wanted to speak privately with him, and there he stabbed him in the stomach. And so Abner was murdered because he had killed Joab's brother Asahel.

1 Chronicles 12:2

members of the tribe of Benjamin, to which Saul belonged. They could shoot arrows and sling stones either right-handed or left-handed.

Jeremiah 41:2

Ishmael and the ten men with him pulled out their swords and killed Gedaliah.

Numbers 35:20

“If you hate someone and kill him by pushing him down or by throwing something at him

Judges 3:15

Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord, and he sent someone to free them. This was Ehud, a left-handed man, who was the son of Gera, from the tribe of Benjamin. The people of Israel sent Ehud to King Eglon of Moab with gifts for him.

Judges 3:21

With his left hand Ehud took the sword from his right side and plunged it into the king's belly.

1 Samuel 26:8

Abishai said to David, “God has put your enemy in your power tonight. Now let me plunge his own spear through him and pin him to the ground with just one blow—I won't have to strike twice!”