2 Samuel 3:27

Legacy Standard Bible

So when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him privately, and there he struck him in the belly so that he died on account of the blood of Asahel his brother.

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:26

Then Absalom said, “If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us.” And the king said to him, “Why should he go with you?”

2 Samuel 19:13

And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God do so to me, and more also, if you will not be commander of the army before me continually in place of Joab.’ ”

2 Samuel 3:26

Then Joab came out from David and sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David did not know it.

2 Samuel 3:28

Afterward David heard it, so he said, “I and my kingdom are innocent before Yahweh forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.

2 Samuel 4:1

Then Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son heard that Abner had died in Hebron. And he lost courage, and all Israel was dismayed.

1 Kings 2:32

And Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he and killed them with the sword, but my father David did not know it: Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

1 Kings 2:5

“Now you also know what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, what he did to the two commanders of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed; he also shed the blood of war in peace. And he put the blood of war on his belt about his waist, and on his sandals on his feet.

1 Chronicles 27:21

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

Proverbs 26:26

Though his hatred covers itself with guile, His evil will be revealed in the assembly.

Jeremiah 41:2

Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him arose and struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword and put to death the one whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.

Numbers 35:19

The blood avenger himself shall put the murderer to death; he shall put him to death when he meets him.

Numbers 35:20

And if he pushed him of hatred or threw something at him lying in wait and as a result he died,

Deuteronomy 27:24

‘Cursed is he who strikes his neighbor in secret.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’