2 Samuel 3:30
So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
2 Samuel 3:30 in other translations
| BSB | (Joab and his brother Abishai murdered Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.) |
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| WEB | So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle. |
| ASV | So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle. |
| YLT | And Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner because that he put to death Asahel their brother, in Gibeon, in battle. |
| DARBY | So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle. |
| BBE | So Joab and Abishai his brother put Abner to death, because he had put to death their brother Asahel in the fight at Gibeon. |
| Webster | So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle. |
What does 2 Samuel 3:30 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Samuel 3:22-39
Judgments are prepared for such scorners as Abner; but Joab, in what he did, acted wickedly. David laid Abner's murder deeply to heart, and in many ways expressed his detestation of it. The guilt of blood brings a curse upon families: if men do not avenge it, God will. It is a sad thing to die like a fool, as they do that any way shorten their own days, and those who make no provision for another world. Who would be…
2 Samuel 3:30 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Samuel 3:30
- Acts 28:4
And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
- 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. Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Art thou Asahel? And he answered, I am. And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee his armour. But Asahel would not turn aside from following of him. And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother? …
- Proverbs 28:17
A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.
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Context
- 2 Samuel 3:29
Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father’s house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.
- 2 Samuel 3:30
So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
- 2 Samuel 3:31
And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.
2 Samuel 3:30 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Joab pues y Abisai su hermano mataron á Abner, porque él había muerto á Asael, hermano de ellos en la batalla de Gabaón. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ainsi Joab et Abishaï, son frère, tuèrent Abner, parce qu’il avait donné la mort à Asçaël, leur frère, à Gabaon, dans la bataille. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | So haben Joab und Abisai, sein Bruder, Abner ermordet, weil er ihren Bruder Asael zu Gibeon im Streit getötet hatte. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Igitur Joab et Abisai frater ejus interfecerunt Abner, eo quod occidisset Asaël fratrem eorum in Gabaon in prælio. |