2 Samuel 3:22-38
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Just then the servants of David arrived with Joab from a raid, bringing much spoil with them. But Abner was not with David at Hebron, for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.
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When Joab and all the army that was with him came, it was told Joab, "Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has let him go, and he has gone in peace."
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Then Joab went to the king and said, "What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away, so that he is gone?
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You know that Abner the son of Ner came to deceive you and to know o your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you are doing."
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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.
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And when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him privately, p and there he struck him q in the stomach, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
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Afterward, when David heard of it, he said, "I and my kingdom are forever guiltless before the Lord for the blood of Abner the son of Ner.
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r May it fall upon the head of Joab and upon all his father's house, and may the house of Joab never be without s one who has a discharge or who is t leprous or who holds a spindle or who falls by the sword or who lacks bread!"
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So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because u he had put their brother Asahel to death in the battle at Gibeon.
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Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, v "Tear your clothes and w put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner." And King David followed the bier.
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They buried Abner at Hebron. And the king lifted up his voice and wept at the grave of Abner, and all the people wept.
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And the king x lamented for Abner, saying,
y "Should Abner die z as a fool dies?
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Your hands were not bound;
your feet were not fettered;
as one falls before the wicked
you have fallen."
And all the people wept again over him.
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Then all the people came a to persuade David to eat bread while it was yet day. But David swore, saying, b "God do so to me and more also, if I taste bread or anything else c till the sun goes down!"
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And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them, as everything that the king did pleased all the people.
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So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been the king's will to put to death Abner the son of Ner.
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And the king said to his servants, "Do you not know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?
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1 Samuel 29:6
Then Achish called David and said to him, "As the Lord lives, you have been honest, and to me it seems right that you should march out and in with me in the campaign. For I have found nothing wrong in you from the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords do not approve of you.
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1 Kings 2:5
Moreover, you also know 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 killed, avenging in time of peace for blood that had been shed in war, and putting the blood of war on the belt around his waist and on the sandals on his feet.
1 Kings 2:32
The Lord will bring back his bloody deeds on his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed 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.
2 Samuel 20:9 - 10
And Joab said to Amasa, "Is it well with you, my brother?" And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
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2 Samuel 2:23
But he refused to turn aside. Therefore Abner struck him in the stomach with the butt of his spear, so that the spear came out at his back. And he fell there and died where he was. And all who came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died, stood still.
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2 Samuel 1:16
And David said to him, "Your blood be on your head, for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have killed the Lord 's anointed.'
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Leviticus 15:2
Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.
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Leviticus 14:2
This shall be the law of the leprous person for the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest.
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2 Samuel 2:23
But he refused to turn aside. Therefore Abner struck him in the stomach with the butt of his spear, so that the spear came out at his back. And he fell there and died where he was. And all who came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died, stood still.
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Joshua 7:6
Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they put dust on their heads.
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Genesis 37:34
Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.
1 Kings 20:31
And his servants said to him, "Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Let us put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads and go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will spare your life.
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2 Samuel 1:17
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and Jonathan his son.
2 Chronicles 35:25
Jeremiah also uttered a lament for Josiah; and all the singing men and singing women have spoken of Josiah in their laments to this day. They made these a rule in Israel; behold, they are written in the Laments.
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Ecclesiastes 2:16
For of the wise as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise dies just like the fool!
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2 Samuel 13:12 - 13
She answered him, "No, my brother, do not violate me, for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this outrageous thing.
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2 Samuel 12:17
And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.
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Ruth 1:17
Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.
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2 Samuel 1:12
And they mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of the Lord and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
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