2 Samuel 19:13 References
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"Say to aAmasa, 'Are you not my bone and my flesh? bMay God do so to me, and more also, if you will not be ccommander of the army before me continually din place of Joab.'"
d 2 Samuel 3:27-39, 2 Samuel 19:5-7
2 Samuel 3
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So when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him privately, and there ahe struck him in the belly so that he died on account of the blood of Asahel his brother.
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Afterward when David heard it, he said, "I and my kingdom are innocent before the Lord forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.
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"aMay it fall on the head of Joab and on all his father's house; and may there not fail from the house of Joab bone who has a discharge, or who is a leper, or who takes hold of a distaff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread."
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So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner abecause 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, "aTear your clothes and gird on sackcloth and lament before Abner." And King David walked behind the bier.
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Thus they buried Abner in Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice and wept at athe grave of Abner, and all the people wept.
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"Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put in fetters; As one falls before the wicked, you have fallen."
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Then all the people came ato persuade David to eat bread while it was still day; but David vowed, saying, "bMay God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread or anything else cbefore the sun goes down."
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Now all the people took note of it, and it pleased them, just as everything 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 will of the king to put Abner the son of Ner to death.
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Then 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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"I am aweak today, though anointed king; and these men bthe sons of Zeruiah are too difficult for me. cMay the Lord repay the evildoer according to his evil."
2 Samuel 19
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Then Joab came into the house to the king and said, "Today you have covered with shame the faces of all your servants, who today have saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters, the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines,
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by loving those who hate you, and by hating those who love you. For you have shown today that princes and servants are nothing to you; for I know this day that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, then you would be pleased.