1 Kings 2:32

Jehovah will punish Joab for those murders he committed without my father David's knowledge. Joab killed two innocent men who were better men than he: Abner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa, commander of the army of Judah.

Judges 9:24

That the cruelty done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might be avenged on their brother Abimelech. For he killed them and the men of Shechem helped him kill his brother.

2 Chronicles 21:13

Instead, you have followed the ways of the kings of Israel. You, like Ahab's family, have caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to chase after foreign gods as if they were prostitutes. You have killed your brothers, your father's family. Your brothers were better than you.

Judges 9:57

God also made the men of Shechem suffer for their wickedness. Jotham, Gideon's son, said they would when he cursed them.

Psalm 7:16

Their mischief returns upon their own heads. Their violence descends on their own heads.

1 Kings 2:5

Remember what Joab did to me by killing the two commanders of Israel's armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. You remember how he murdered them in time of peace. This was revenge for deaths they had caused in time of war. He killed innocent men. I bear the responsibility for what he did. I suffer the consequences.

Genesis 4:11

Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

1 Samuel 15:28

Samuel said to him: Jehovah has torn the kingdom of Israel away from you today. He gave it to someone who is a better man than you.

2 Samuel 3:26-27

Joab left David. Then he sent messengers to get Abner, and they brought him back from Sirah Well. David knew nothing about it.

2 Samuel 3:37

That day all the people of Israel knew the king was not responsible for killing Ner's son Abner.

2 Samuel 4:11

How much more should I reward wicked men who kill an innocent man on his own bed in his home? Jehovah has rescued me from every trouble. I solemnly swear, as Jehovah lives, I will now seek revenge for his murder and rid the land of you.

2 Samuel 17:25

Absalom put Amasa in Joab's place as commander of the army. Amasa's father was Ithra from the family of Ishmael, and his mother was Abigal, the daughter of Nahash and the sister of Joab's mother Zeruiah.

2 Samuel 20:9-10

How are you, my brother? Joab asked Amasa. He took hold of Amasa's beard with his right hand to kiss him.

1 Kings 2:44

You know very well all the wrong that you did to my father David. Jehovah will punish you for it.

Esther 1:19

If it is pleasing to the king, let an order go out from him. Let it be recorded among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it may never be changed. That Vashti is never again to come before King Ahasuerus. Let the king give her place to another who is better than she.

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And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.

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1 Kings 2:44
You know very well all the wrong that you did to my father David. Jehovah will punish you for it.
Genesis 4:11
Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
Judges 9:24
That the cruelty done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might be avenged on their brother Abimelech. For he killed them and the men of Shechem helped him kill his brother.
Psalm 7:16
Their mischief returns upon their own heads. Their violence descends on their own heads.

Two men

2 Samuel 3:27
Abner arrived in Hebron. Joab took him aside at the gate, as though he wanted to speak privately with him. There he stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner was murdered because he had killed Joab's brother Asahel.
2 Samuel 20:10
Amasa was not on guard against the sword in Joab's left hand. Joab stabbed him in the stomach. Then he stabbed him in his intestines and they poured out on the ground. He died without being stabbed again. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bichri.

More righteous

1 Samuel 15:28
Samuel said to him: Jehovah has torn the kingdom of Israel away from you today. He gave it to someone who is a better man than you.
2 Samuel 4:11
How much more should I reward wicked men who kill an innocent man on his own bed in his home? Jehovah has rescued me from every trouble. I solemnly swear, as Jehovah lives, I will now seek revenge for his murder and rid the land of you.
2 Chronicles 21:13
Instead, you have followed the ways of the kings of Israel. You, like Ahab's family, have caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to chase after foreign gods as if they were prostitutes. You have killed your brothers, your father's family. Your brothers were better than you.
Esther 1:19
If it is pleasing to the king, let an order go out from him. Let it be recorded among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it may never be changed. That Vashti is never again to come before King Ahasuerus. Let the king give her place to another who is better than she.

My father

2 Samuel 3:26
Joab left David. Then he sent messengers to get Abner, and they brought him back from Sirah Well. David knew nothing about it.

Abner

2 Samuel 3:27
Abner arrived in Hebron. Joab took him aside at the gate, as though he wanted to speak privately with him. There he stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner was murdered because he had killed Joab's brother Asahel.

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Psalm 7:16
Their mischief returns upon their own heads. Their violence descends on their own heads.