Parallel Verses
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.
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.
A Conservative Version
So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
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.
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 It fall therefore on the head of Joab and on all his father's house: that the house of Joab be never without one or other that hath running issues or without lepers and goers on crutches, and that fall on the sword and that lack bread." 30 And the cause why Joab and Abishai slew Abner was that Abner had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in battle. 31 And David said to Joab and to all the people that were with him, "Rent your clothes and put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner." And king David himself followed the bier.
Phrases
Cross References
2 Samuel 2:19-23
and followed after Abner and turned neither to the righthand nor to the left from Abner.
Proverbs 28:17
He that by violence sheddeth any man's blood, shall be a renagade unto his grave; and no man shall be able to succor him.
Acts 28:4
When the men of the country saw the worm hang on his hand, they said among themselves, "This man must needs be a murderer: Whom, though he have escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live."