2 Samuel 3 verses 22 through 39.

Just then the servants of David arrived with Joab from a raid, bringing much spoil with them, but Abner was not with David at Hebron, for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.

But when Joab and all the army that was with

him came, it was told Joab. Abner the son of Nur came to the king, and he has let him go,

and he has gone in peace. Then Joab went to the king and said, What have you done? Behold Abner

came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away so that he is gone?

You know that Abner, the son of Nur, came to deceive you and to know you're going out and

you're coming in, and to know all that you are doing.

Joab murders Abner.

When Joab came out from David's presence, he sent messengers after Abner, and they

brought him back from the cistern of Cyra. But David did not know about it, and when Abner returned

to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him privately,

and there he struck him in the stomach so that he died for the blood of Asahel his brother.

Afterward, when David heard of it, he said,

I and my kingdom are forever guiltless before the Lord for the blood of Abner, the son of Nur.

May it fall upon the head of Joab and upon all his father's house,

and may the house of Joab never be without one, who has

a discharge or who is leprous, or who holds a spindle, or who falls by the sword, or who

lacks bread. So Joab and Abashai, his brother, killed Abner, because he had put their brother,

Ossahil, to death in the battle at Gibbon.

David mourns Abner.

Then David said to Job and to all the people who were with him, tear your clothes and

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