2 Samuel 3:27

New American Standard Bible 2020

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 his brother Asahel.

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:26

Then Absalom said, “If not, please have my brother Amnon go with us.” But 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 so, if you will not be commander of the army for me continually, in place of Joab.’ ”

2 Samuel 3:26

When Joab left David’s presence, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David did not know about it.

2 Samuel 3:28

Afterward, when David heard about this, he said, “I and my kingdom are innocent before the Lord forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.

2 Samuel 4:1

Now when Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, heard that Abner had died in Hebron, his courage failed, and all Israel was horrified.

1 Kings 2:32

The Lord will return his blood on his own head, because he struck two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, while my father David did not know about 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 yourself 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 that was on his waist, and on his sandals that were 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 deception, His wickedness will be revealed in the assembly.

Jeremiah 41:2

Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him rose up, and struck and killed 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 himself shall put him to death when he meets him.

Numbers 35:20

Now if he pushed him in hatred, or he threw something at him with malicious intent, and as a result he died,

Deuteronomy 27:24

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