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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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?
 
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:
 
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