2 Samuel 3:27

New King James Version

Now when Abner had returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him privately, and there stabbed him in the stomach, so that he died for 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? God do so to me, and more also, if you are not commander of the army before me continually in place of Joab.’ ”

2 Samuel 3:26

And when Joab had gone from David’s presence, he sent messengers after Abner, who brought him back from the well of Sirah. But David did not know it.

2 Samuel 3:28

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

2 Samuel 4:1

When Saul’s son heard that Abner had died in Hebron, he lost heart, and all Israel was troubled.

1 Kings 2:32

So the Lord will return his blood on his head, because he struck down two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword—Abner the son of Ner, the commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, the commander of the army of Judah—though my father David did not know it.

1 Kings 2:5

“Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two commanders of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner and Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed. And he shed the blood of war in peacetime, and put the blood of war on his belt that was around his waist, and on his sandals that were on 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 deceit, His wickedness will be revealed before the assembly.

Jeremiah 41:2

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

Numbers 35:19

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

Numbers 35:20

If he pushes him out of hatred or, while lying in wait, hurls something at him so that he dies,

Deuteronomy 27:24

‘Cursed is the one who attacks his neighbor secretly.’ “And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’