2 Samuel 3:27

Modern English Version

So Abner returned to Hebron, and Joab pulled him aside in the gateway so as to speak with him undisturbed. There he struck him in the midsection so that he died on account of the blood of Asahel, his brother.

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:26

Absalom said, “If not, allow my brother Amnon to go with us.” But the king replied to him, “Why should he go with you?”

2 Samuel 19:13

Say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God do to me, and more so, if you are not commander of the army before me from now on in the place of Joab.’ ”

2 Samuel 3:26

When Joab left David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah. However, David was not aware of this.

2 Samuel 3:28

Afterward when David heard of this, he said, “My kingdom and I are forever blameless before the Lord for the blood of Abner the son of Ner.

2 Samuel 4:1

When the son of Saul heard that Abner had died in Hebron, his courage failed, and all of Israel was disheartened.

1 Kings 2:32

The Lord shall return his blood upon his own head, for he attacked two men more righteous and better than he —Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah—and killed them with the sword when my father David was unaware.

1 Kings 2:5

“Moreover, you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, what he did to the two commanders of the army of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, shedding the blood of war in a time of peace. He spilled their blood on the belt that was around his waist and on the shoes of his feet.

1 Chronicles 27:21

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

Proverbs 26:26

though his hatred is covered by guile, his wickedness will be exposed before the congregation.

Jeremiah 41:2

Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the ten men that were with him arose and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan with the sword and slew him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.

Numbers 35:19

The avenger of blood himself will slay the murderer. When he meets him, he will slay him.

Numbers 35:20

But if he pushed him out of hatred, or threw something at him, lying in wait, so he dies,

Deuteronomy 27:24

“Cursed is he who strikes down his neighbor secretly.” And all the people shall say, “Amen.”