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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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And afterward when David heard
it,
he said, I and my kingdom
are
guiltless before the L
ORD
for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner:
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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.
30
So Joab and Abishai
his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
31
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.
32
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.
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And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?
34
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.
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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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And all the people took notice
of it,
and it pleased
them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.
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For all the people and all Israel understood
that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.
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And the king said unto his
servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
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And I
am
this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah
be
too hard for me: the
L
ORD
shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.
CHAPTER SAMUEL 4
And when Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the
Israelites were troubled.
2
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:
3
And the Beerothites fled to
Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)
4
And Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son
that was
lame of
his
feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel,
and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and
became lame. And his name
was
Mephibosheth.
5
And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab
and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ish-bosheth, who lay on a
bed at noon.
6
And they came thither into the midst of the house,
as though
they would have fetched
wheat; and they smote him under the fifth
rib:
and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
7
For
when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew
him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.
8
And
they brought the head of Ish-bosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head
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