2 Samuel 3:27

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him privately, and there he smote him in the belly, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:26

Then Absalom said, “If not, pray 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 my army henceforth in place of Joab.’ ”

2 Samuel 3:26

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

2 Samuel 3:28

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

2 Samuel 4:1

When Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, heard that Abner had died at Hebron, his courage failed, and all Israel was dismayed.

1 Kings 2:32

The Lord will bring back his bloody deeds upon his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and slew with the sword two men more righteous and better than himself, 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

“Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, how he dealt with the two commanders of the armies of Israel, Abner the son of Ner, and Amasa the son of Jether, whom he murdered, avenging in time of peace blood which had been shed in war, and putting innocent blood upon the girdle about my loins, and upon the sandals on my feet.

1 Chronicles 27:21

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

Proverbs 26:26

though his hatred be covered with guile, his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.

Jeremiah 41:2

Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the ten men with him rose up and struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, with the sword, and killed him, whom the king of Babylon had appointed governor in the land.

Numbers 35:19

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

Numbers 35:20

And if he stabbed him from hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,

Deuteronomy 27:24

“ ‘Cursed be he who slays his neighbor in secret.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’