2 Samuel 3:30
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New International Version (©2011)
(Joab and his brother Abishai murdered Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.)

New Living Translation (©2007)
So Joab and his brother Abishai killed Abner because Abner had killed their brother Asahel at the battle of Gibeon.

English Standard Version (©2001)
So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had put their brother Asahel to death in the battle at Gibeon.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner because he had put their brother Asahel to death in the battle at Gibeon.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Joab and his brother Abishai killed Abner because he had put their brother Asahel to death in the battle at Gibeon.

International Standard Version (©2012)
He said this because Joab and his brother Abishai murdered Abner after he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.

NET Bible (©2006)
So Joab and his brother Abishai killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel in Gibeon during the battle.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
(Joab and his brother Abishai killed Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.)

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

American King James Version
So Joab, and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

American Standard Version
So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So Joab and Abisai his brother slew Abner, because he had killed their brother Asael at Gabaon in the battle.

Darby Bible Translation
So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

English Revised Version
So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

Webster's Bible Translation
So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

World English Bible
So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

Young's Literal Translation
And Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner because that he put to death Asahel their brother, in Gibeon, in battle.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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 fond of power, when a man may have the name of it, and must be accountable for it, yet is hampered in the use of it? David ought to have done his duty, and then trusted God with the issue. Carnal policy spared Joab. The Son of David may long delay, but never fails to punish impenitent sinners. He who now reigns upon the throne of David, has a kingdom of a nobler kind. Whatever He doeth, is noticed by all his willing people, and is pleasing to them.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 30. - Joab and Abishai his brother. Nothing is said of Abishai having taken part in the murder, but the words suggest that it was a premeditated act, and that Abishai was privy to it.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner,.... For though it was only Joab that gave him the thrust of which he died, Abishai was in the secret, and was consenting and advising to his death, and so an accessory to it; and might be present, ready to assist in it, if occasion required; and so Josephus (k) expressly says, that Abishai his brother was with him when he drew his sword, and smote him:

because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle: which was no just reason at all; his blood was shed in war, this in peace, in cold blood, and under the guise of friendship; that was shed with reluctance, and after fair warning, and in defence of himself; but this wilfully in Joab, unawares to Abner, and in great deceit and hypocrisy; see 1 Kings 2:5.

(k) Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 7. c. 1. sect. 6.)

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Joab Murders Abner
…28And 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: 29Let 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 has an issue, or that is a leper, or that leans on a staff, or that falls on the sword, or that lacks bread. 30So Joab, and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

2 Samuel 2:23 But Asahel refused to give up the pursuit; so Abner thrust the butt of his spear into Asahel's stomach, and the spear came out through his back. He fell there and died on the spot. And every man stopped when he came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died.
2 Samuel 20:8 While they were at the great rock in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Joab was wearing his military tunic, and strapped over it at his waist was a belt with a dagger in its sheath. As he stepped forward, it dropped out of its sheath.