2 Samuel 3:27
When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside into the gateway, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died on account of the blood of Joab’s brother Asahel.
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.
Note quietly: or, peaceably
When Abner had returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died for the blood of Asahel his brother.
And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- took him
- 2 Samuel 20:9, 10; Deuteronomy 27:24; 1 Kings 2:5, 32
- quietly
- or, peaceably.
- Jeremiah 41:2, 6, 7
- for the blood
- 2 Samuel 2:19–23