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2 Samuel 3:28

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26 As soon as Joab had left David, he sent messengers after Abner, who brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David was unaware of it.

27 When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside into the gateway, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died on account of the blood of Joab’s brother Asahel.

Afterward, David heard about this and said, “I and my kingdom are forever guiltless before the LORD concerning the blood of Abner son of Ner.

29 May it whirl over the heads of Joab and the entire house of his father, and may the house of Joab never be without one having a discharge or skin disease, or one who leans on a staff or falls by the sword or lacks food.”

30 (Joab and his brother Abishai murdered Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.)

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BSB
Afterward, David heard about this and said, “I and my kingdom are forever guiltless before the LORD concerning the blood of Abner son of Ner.
KJV
And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner:
WEB
Afterward, when David heard it, he said, “I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.
ASV
And afterward, when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before Jehovah for ever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner:
DARBY
And afterwards David heard [it], and he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before Jehovah for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner:
BLB
And David heard [it] after thus, and he said, “I and My kingdom [are] guiltless before YHWH, even to forever, of the blood of Abner son of Ner.
ÅB
Da David siden fikk høre dette, sa han: Jeg og mitt kongedømme er for evig uten skyld for Herren i Abners, Ners sønns blod.
OTB
Etterpå, da David hørte om det, sa han, "Jeg og mitt kongedømme er uskyldige for Herren for alltid for blodet til Abner, sønn av Ner.
B1930
Da David siden fikk høre dette, sa han: Jeg og mitt kongedømme er for evig uten skyld for Herren i Abners, Ners sønns blod.

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Cross references

  • Numbers 35:33

    Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

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  • Exodus 21:12

    Whoever strikes and kills a man must surely be put to death.

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  • Genesis 4:10

    “What have you done?” replied the LORD. “The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.

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  • Genesis 9:6

    Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.

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  • Deuteronomy 21:1–9

    If one is found slain, lying in a field in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,

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  • Matthew 27:24

    When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but that instead a riot was breaking out, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “You bear the responsibility.”

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