Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

And Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner because that he put to death Asahel their brother, in Gibeon, in battle.

New American Standard Bible

So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner because he had put their brother Asahel to death in the battle at Gibeon.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
So Joab
יואב 
Yow'ab 
Usage: 145

and Abishai
H52
אבשׁי אבישׁי 
'Abiyshay 
Usage: 25

הרג 
Harag 
Usage: 166

H74
אבינר אבנר 
'Abner 
Usage: 63

מוּת 
Muwth 
Usage: 839

עשׂהאל 
`Asah'el 
Usage: 18

at Gibeon
גּבעון 
Gib`own 
Usage: 37

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Smith

Context Readings

Abner Is Killed

29 it doth stay on the head of Joab, and on all the house of his father, and there is not cut off from the house of Joab one having an issue, and leprous, and laying hold on a staff, and falling by a sword, and lacking bread.' 30 And Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner because that he put to death Asahel their brother, in Gibeon, in battle. 31 And David saith unto Joab, and unto all the people who are with him, 'Rend your garments, and gird on sackcloth, and mourn before Abner;' and king David is going after the bier.

Cross References

2 Samuel 2:19-23

And Asahel pursueth after Abner, and hath not turned aside to go to the right or to the left, from after Abner.

Proverbs 28:17

A man oppressed with the blood of a soul, Unto the pit fleeth, none taketh hold on him.

Acts 28:4

And when the foreigners saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said unto one another, 'Certainly this man is a murderer, whom, having been saved out of the sea, the justice did not suffer to live;'

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