1 Samuel 14:50 mention
The name of Saul’s wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. The name of the captain of his army was Abner the son of Ner, Saul’s uncle.
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Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
Preview context 1 Samuel 17:55 event
When Saul saw David go out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the army, “Abner, whose son is this youth?” Abner said, “As your soul lives, O king, I can’t tell.”
Preview context 1 Samuel 17:57 event
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.
Preview context 1 Samuel 20:25 event
The king sat on his seat, as at other times, even on the seat by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul’s side, but David’s place was empty.
Preview context 1 Samuel 26:5 mention
Then David arose, and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David saw the place where Saul lay, with Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his army. Saul lay within the place of the wagons, and the people were encamped around him.
Preview context 1 Samuel 26:7 event
So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay around him.
Preview context 1 Samuel 26:14 mention
and David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, “Don’t you answer, Abner?” Then Abner answered, “Who are you who cries to the king?”
Preview context 1 Samuel 26:15 event
David said to Abner, “Aren’t you a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord, the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord.
Preview context 2 Samuel 2:8 mention
Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s army, had taken Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
Preview context 2 Samuel 2:12 mention
Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
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Abner said to Joab, “Please let the young men arise and play before us!” Joab said, “Let them arise!”
Preview context 2 Samuel 2:17 mention
The battle was very severe that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before David’s servants.
Preview context 2 Samuel 2:19 event
Asahel pursued Abner; and in going he didn’t turn to the right hand or to the left from following Abner.
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Then Abner looked behind him, and said, “Is that you, Asahel?” He answered, “It is.”
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Abner said to him, “Turn away to your right hand or to your left, and grab one of the young men, and take his armor.” But Asahel would not turn away from following him.
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Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn away from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I look Joab your brother in the face?”
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However he refused to turn away. Therefore Abner with the back end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place. As many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.
Preview context 2 Samuel 2:24 event
But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. The sun went down when they had come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
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The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill.
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Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?”
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Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; and they passed over the Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and came to Mahanaim.
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Joab returned from following Abner; and when he had gathered all the people together, nineteen men of David’s and Asahel were missing.
Preview context 2 Samuel 2:31 event
But David’s servants had struck Benjamin and of Abner’s men so that three hundred sixty men died.
Preview context 2 Samuel 3:6 event
While there was war between Saul’s house and David’s house, Abner made himself strong in Saul’s house.
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Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah; and Ishbosheth said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”
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Then Abner was very angry about Ishbosheth’s words, and said, “Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to Saul’s house your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me today with a fault concerning this woman!
Preview context 2 Samuel 3:9 mention
God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as Yahweh has sworn to David, I don’t do even so to him;
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He could not answer Abner another word, because he was afraid of him.
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Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, “Whose is the land?” and saying, “Make your alliance with me, and behold, my hand will be with you, to bring all Israel around to you.”
Preview context 2 Samuel 3:16 event
Her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go! Return!” and he returned.
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Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, “In times past, you sought for David to be king over you.
Preview context 2 Samuel 3:19 mention
Abner also spoke in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and to the whole house of Benjamin.
Preview context 2 Samuel 3:20 event
So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. David made Abner and the men who were with him a feast.
Preview context 2 Samuel 3:21 event
Abner said to David, “I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your soul desires.” David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.
Preview context 2 Samuel 3:22 event
Behold, David’s servants and Joab came from a raid, and brought in a great plunder with them; but Abner was not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.
Preview context 2 Samuel 3:23 mention
When Joab and all the army who was with him had come, they told Joab, “Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has sent him away, and he has gone in peace.”
Preview context 2 Samuel 3:24 event
Then Joab came to the king, and said, “What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away, and he is already gone?
Preview context 2 Samuel 3:25 mention
You know Abner the son of Ner. He came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do.”
Preview context 2 Samuel 3:26 event
When Joab had come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David didn’t know it.
Preview context 2 Samuel 3:27 event
When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
Preview context 2 Samuel 3:28 mention
Afterward, when David heard it, he said, “I and my kingdom are guiltless before Yahweh forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.
Preview context 2 Samuel 3:30 event
So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
Preview context 2 Samuel 3:31 event
David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn in front of Abner.” King David followed the bier.
Preview context 2 Samuel 3:32 event
They buried Abner in Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at Abner’s grave; and all the people wept.
Preview context 2 Samuel 3:33 event
The king lamented for Abner, and said, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?
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So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner.
Preview context 2 Samuel 4:1 event
When Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
Preview context 2 Samuel 4:12 event
David commanded his young men, and they killed them, cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in Abner’s grave in Hebron.
Preview context 1 Kings 2:5 mention
“Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was around his waist, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
Preview context 1 Kings 2:32 mention
Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.
Preview context 1 Chronicles 26:28 mention
All that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated, whoever had dedicated anything, it was under the hand of Shelomoth, and of his brothers.
Preview context 1 Chronicles 27:21 mention
of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah; of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner;
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