The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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23When Joab and his men came, news was given them that Abner, the son of Ner, had come to the king, who had let him go away again in peace.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 3:24 (KJV)
Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone?

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 3:25 (KJV)
Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou doest.

 

[AndTheWordWasGOD]

2 Samuel 3:26 (KJV)

And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, which brought him again from the well of Sirah: but David knew it not.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 3:27 (KJV)
And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

 

[Grace777x70]

2 Samuel 3:28 (NASB)
[SUP]28 [/SUP] Afterward when David heard it, he said, "I and my kingdom are innocent before the LORD forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 3:29 (KJV)
Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.

 

[laura_charlotte]

2 Samuel 3:30 New International Version (NIV)

30 (Joab and his brother Abishai murdered Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.)

 

[AndTheWordWasGOD]

2 Samuel 3:31 (KJV)

And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 3:32 (KJV)
And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.

 

[Grace777x70]

2 Samuel 3:33 (NASB)
[SUP]33 [/SUP] The king chanted a lament for Abner and said, "Should Abner die as a fool dies?

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 3:34 (KJV)
Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.

 

[AndTheWordWasGOD]

2 Samuel 3:35 (KJV)

And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 3:36 (KJV)
And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.

 

[Grace777x70]

2 Samuel 3:37 (NASB)
[SUP]37 [/SUP] So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been the will of the king to put Abner the son of Ner to death.

 

[willfollowsGod]

2 Samuel 3:38
New International Version (NIV)

Then the king said to his men, “Do you not realize that a commander and a great man has fallen in Israel this day?

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 3:39 (KJV)
And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the LORD shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 4:1 (KJV)
And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.

 

[AndTheWordWasGOD]

2 Samuel 4:2 (KJV)
And Saul's son had two men that were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin:

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 4:3 (KJV)
And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)