Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
New American Standard Bible
So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner
King James Version
So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
Holman Bible
Joab and his brother Abishai killed Abner because he had put their brother Asahel to death in the battle at Gibeon.
International Standard Version
He said this because Joab and his brother Abishai murdered Abner after he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.
American Standard Version
So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
Amplified
So Joab and Abishai his brother murdered Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.
Bible in Basic English
So Joab and Abishai his brother put Abner to death, because he had put to death their brother Asahel in the fight at Gibeon.
Darby Translation
So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
Julia Smith Translation
And Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner because be slew Asahel their brother in Gibeon in war.
King James 2000
So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
Lexham Expanded Bible
So Joab and Abishai, his brother, killed Abner because he had killed Asahel, their brother, at Gibeon in the battle.
Modern King James verseion
And Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And the cause why Joab and Abishai slew Abner was that Abner had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in battle.
NET Bible
So Joab and his brother Abishai killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel in Gibeon during the battle.
New Heart English Bible
So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
The Emphasized Bible
Thus, Joab and Abishai his brother, slew Abner, - because he had caused the death of Asahel their brother, in Gibeon, in the battle.
Webster
So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
World English Bible
So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
Youngs Literal Translation
And Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner because that he put to death Asahel their brother, in Gibeon, in battle.
Themes
Abishai » Pursues and kills abner
Abner » Murdered by joab; david's sorrow for
Chiding » David chides joab for killing abner
gibeon » A city » A city of the hivites » Abner slays asahel at
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Samuel 3:30
Verse Info
Context Readings
Abner Is Killed
29 Let it fall upon the head of Joab, and upon all his father's house. And let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has an issue, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread. 30 So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle. 31 And David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David followed the bier.
Phrases
Cross References
2 Samuel 2:19-23
And Asahel pursued after Abner, and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.
Proverbs 28:17
A man who is laden with the blood of any person shall flee to the pit. Let no man stay him.
Acts 28:4
And when the foreigners saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to each other, Certainly this man is a murderer, whom, though saved from the sea, Justice did not allow to live.