◄ 2 Samuel 3:30 ►
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Good News Translation
So Joab and his brother Abishai took revenge on Abner for killing their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.

New Revised Standard Version
So Joab and his brother Abishai murdered Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.

Contemporary English Version
Joab and his brother Abishai killed Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.

New American Bible
Joab and Abishai his brother had been lying in wait for Abner because he killed Asahel their brother in battle at Gibeon.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So Joab and Abisai his brother slew Abner, because he had killed their brother Asael at Gabaon in the battle.

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So Joab and Abisai his brother slew Abner, because he had killed their brother Asael at Gabaon in the battle.

slew Abner

Proverbs 28:17 A man that doth violence to the blood of a person, if he flee even to the pit, no man will stay him.

Acts 28:4 And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging on his hand, they said one to another: Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, who, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance doth not suffer him to live.

because

2 Samuel 2:19-23 And Asael pursued after Abner, and turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner. . . .

Context
Joab Murders Abner
…29And may it come upon the head of Joab, and upon all his father's house: and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue of seed, or that is a leper, or that holdeth the distaff, or that falleth by the sword, or that wanteth bread. 30So Joab and Abisai his brother slew Abner, because he had killed their brother Asael at Gabaon in the battle.
Cross References
2 Samuel 2:23
But he refused to hearken to him, and would not turn aside: wherefore Abner struck him with his spear with a back stroke in the groin, and thrust him through, and he died upon the spot: and all that came to the place where Asael fell down and died stood still.

2 Samuel 20:8
And when they were at the great stone which is in Gabaon, Amasa coming met them. And Joab had on a close coat of equal length with his habit, and over it was girded with a sword hanging down to his flank, in a scabbard, made in such manner as to come out with the least motion and strike.

2 Samuel 3:29
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