1There was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David; David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul became weaker and weaker.
2 said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”
8 made Abner very angry; he said, “Am I a dog’s head for Judah? Today I keep showing loyalty to the house of your father Saul, to his brothers, and to his friends and have not given you into the hand of David, yet you charge me now with a crime concerning this woman.
9 could not answer Abner another word because he feared him.
12Abner sent messengers to David where he was, saying, “To whom does the land belong? Make your covenant with me, and I will give you my support to bring all Israel over to you.”
13 saying, “Give me my wife Michal, to whom I became engaged at the price of one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”
15 sent and took her from her husband Paltiel the son of Laish.
16 had dismissed him, and he had gone away in peace.
23When Joab and all the army that was with him came, it was told to Joab, “Abner son of Ner came to the king, and he has dismissed him, and he has gone away in peace.”
24Then Joab went to the king and said, “What have you done? Abner came to you; why did you dismiss him, so that he got away?
25 brother.
28Afterward, when David heard of it, he said, “I and my kingdom are forever guiltless before the Lord for the blood of Abner son of Ner.
291 Kings 2.32May the bloodguilt fall on the head of Joab and on all his father’s house, and may the house of Joab never be without one who has a discharge, or who has a defiling skin disease, or who holds a spindle, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks food!”
302 Sam 2.23So Joab and his brother Abishai murdered Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.
31 Gen 37.34; 2 Sam 1.2, 11 Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourn over Abner.” And King David followed the bier.
32They buried Abner at Hebron. The king lifted up his voice and wept at the grave of Abner, and all the people wept.
332 Sam 1.17The king lamented for Abner, saying,
“Should Abner die as a fool dies?
34Your hands were not bound;
your feet were not fettered;
as one falls before the wicked
you have fallen.”
And all the people wept over him again.
351 Sam 3.17; 2 Sam 1.12; 12.17Then all the people came to persuade David to eat something while it was still day, but David swore, saying, “So may God do to me and more, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun goes down!”
36All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them, just as everything the king did pleased all the people.
37So all the people and all Israel understood that day that the king had no part in the killing of Abner son of Ner.
38And the king said to his servants, “Do you not know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?
392 Sam 19.5–7; 1 Kings 2.5, 6, 33, 34Today I am powerless, even though anointed king; these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too violent for me. The Lord pay back the one who does wickedly in accordance with his wickedness!”
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