Abner in the Bible
Meaning: father of light
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And the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz: and the name of the captain of his host was Abner, the son of Ner, Saul's uncle.
And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said to Abner the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.
And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.
And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and David's place was empty.
And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner, the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched around him.
So David and Abishai came to the people by night, and behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay about him.
And David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered and said, Who art thou that criest to the king?
And David said to Abner, Art not thou a valiant man? and who is like to thee in Israel? why then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came in one of the people to destroy the king thy lord.
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Abner » Cousin of saul
Abner » Captain of the host
Abner » Dedicated spoils of war to the tabernacle
Abner » Murdered by joab; david's sorrow for
And Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner because be slew Asahel their brother in Gibeon in war. And David will say to Joab and to all the people which were with him, Rend your garments and gird you with sack-cloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David went after the litter. And they will bury Abner in Hebron: and the king will lift up his voice and weep at the grave of Abner; and all the people will weep. And the king will lament for Abner, and he will say, As the fool died will Abner die? Thy hands not bound, and thy feet were not joined to fetters as falling before the sons of iniquity thou fellest. And all the people will add to weep over him. And all the people will come to cause David to eat bread, while yet day. And David will swear, saying, Thus will God do to me, and thus will he add, if before the going down of the sun I shall taste bread or anything. And all the people knew, and it will be good in their eyes, as all the king did was good in the eyes of all the people. And all the people knew, and all Israel, in that day, that it was not from the king to kill Abner son of Ner. And the king will say to his servants, Will ye not know that a chief and a great one fell this day in Israel? And I this day tender, and being anointed king; and these men sons of Zeruiah, hard for me. Jehovah will recompense to him doing evil according to his evil.
Abner » Alienation of, from the house of saul
Thus will God do to Abner, and thus will he add to him, for as Jehovah sware to David that thus I will do to him: To cause the kingdom to pass over from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan and even to the Well of the Oath. And he was not able to turn back Abner a word from his fearing him. And Abner will send messengers to David for his sake, saying, To whom the land? saying, Cut out thy covenant with me, and behold, my hand with thee to turn about to thee all Israel. And he will say, Good; I will cut out with thee a covenant: but one word I ask from thee, saying, Thou shalt not see my face if before thy bringing Michal, Saul's daughter, in thy coming to see my face. And David will send messengers to the man of shame, son of Saul, saying, Thou shalt give my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to me for a hundred uncircumcisions of the rovers. And the man of shame will send and take her from the man Phaltiel, son of Laish. And her husband went with her, going and weeping after her even to Bahurim. And Abner will say to him, Go, turn back And he will turn back. And a word of Abner was with the old men of Israel, saying, Also yesterday also the third day ye were seeking David for king over you. And now do; for Jehovah said to David, saying, By the hand of David my servant I saved my people from the hand of the rovers, and from the hand of all their enemies. And Abner will speak also in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner will also go to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all which was good in the eyes of Israel and in the eyes of all the house of Benjamin. And Abner will come to David to Hebron, and with him twenty men: and David will make to Abner and to the men with him a drinking. And Abner will say to David, I will arise and go and gather to my lord the king, all Israel, and they shall cut out with thee a covenant, and thou didst reign over all that thy soul shall desire. And David will send away Abner, and he will go in peace.
Abner » Loyalty of, to the house of saul
And the number of days which David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah, will be seven years and six months. And Abner son of Ner, will go forth. and the servants of the man of shame, son of Saul, from the two camps to the hill And Joab son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, will go forth and meet them at the pool of Gibeon together: and these will sit by the pool from hence, and those by the pool from thence. And Abner will say to Joab, Now shall the boys arise and play before us. And Joab will say, They shall arise. And they will rise and pass over by number, twelve to Benjamin, and to the man of shame, son of Saul, and twelve from the servants of David. And they will seize each upon the head of his neighbor, and his sword in the side of his neighbor, and they will fall together: and he will call, that place Helkath-Hazurim, which is in Gibeon. And the war will be hard even exceedingly, in that day; and Abner will be smitten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David. And there will be there three sons of Zeruiah, Joab and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was swift in his feet as one of the roes which are in the field. And Asahel will pursue after Abner; and he turned not to the right or to the left from after Abner. And Abner will look behind him and say, This thou Asahel? And he will say, I. And Abner will say to him,. Turn to thyself to the right or to the left, and take hold for thyself from the boys and take to thee his spoils. And Asahel would not turn aside from after him. And Abner will add yet to say to Asahel, Turn aside for thyself from after me: wherefore shall I strike thee to the earth? and how shall I lift up my face to Joab thy brother? And he will refuse to turn aside: and Abner will strike him with the extremity of the spear in the belly, and the spear will come forth from behind him, and he will fall there and die in his place: and it will be, all coming to the place where Asahel fell there and he will die, and they will stand. And Joab and Abishai will pursue after Abner: and the sun went down and they came even to the hill of terror, which was by the face of Giah, the way of the desert of Gibeon. And the sons of Benjamin will gather together after Abner, and they will be for one band, and they will stand upon the head of one hill. And Abner will call to Joab and say, Shall the sword consume forever? knewest thou not that it will be bitter at the last? and how long wilt thou not say to the people to turn back from after their brethren? And Joab will say, God lives if thou spakest not, for then from the morning the people went up, each from after his brother. And Joab will strike upon the trumpet, and all the people will stand, and no more pursue after Israel, and they will no more add to fight. And Abner and his men went in the sterile region all that night, and they will pass over Jordan and will go to all Bithron, and will come to the two camps. And Joab turned back from after Abner: and he will gather all the people together and they will review from the servants of David nineteen men and Asahel. And the servants of David struck from Benjamin and upon the men of Abner, three hundred and sixty men died. And they will lift up Asahel and bury him in the grave of his father, which was in the House of Bread. And Joab and his men will go all night and it will shine to them in Hebron.
Burial » Attended by relatives and friends » Abner
Homicide » Instances of felonious » Abner
And Abner will say to him,. Turn to thyself to the right or to the left, and take hold for thyself from the boys and take to thee his spoils. And Asahel would not turn aside from after him. And Abner will add yet to say to Asahel, Turn aside for thyself from after me: wherefore shall I strike thee to the earth? and how shall I lift up my face to Joab thy brother? And he will refuse to turn aside: and Abner will strike him with the extremity of the spear in the belly, and the spear will come forth from behind him, and he will fall there and die in his place: and it will be, all coming to the place where Asahel fell there and he will die, and they will stand. And Joab and Abishai will pursue after Abner: and the sun went down and they came even to the hill of terror, which was by the face of Giah, the way of the desert of Gibeon.