Bible Verses About Abner

Thus Yo'av and Avishai his brother killed Avner, because he had killed their brother 'Asah'el during the battle in Giv'on.

But David said to Yo'av and all those with him, "Tear your clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourn over Avner." King David himself walked behind the body as it was carried.

They buried Avner at Hevron; the king wept aloud at Avner's grave, and all the people wept.

The king sang this lament over Avner: "Should Avner have died like a thug?

Your hands weren't tied, your feet weren't fettered; you fell like one who falls at the hands of criminals." Then all the people wept over him more than ever.

All the people came to David and tried to make him eat some bread while it was still daytime; but David swore, "May God bring terrible curses on me and worse ones yet if I taste bread or anything else until the sun goes down."

All the people took note of this, and it pleased them; whatever the king did pleased all the people.

So that day, all the people and all Isra'el understood that the king had had no part in the killing of Avner the son of Ner.

The king said to his servants, "You realize that a leader, a great man, has fallen today in Isra'el.

Even though I have just been anointed king, I feel weak today; and these men, the sons of Tz'ruyah, are too brutal for me. May ADONAI repay the criminal as his crime deserves!"

From the spoil won in wars they had dedicated these things to repair the house of ADONAI.

Also included was all that Sh'mu'el the seer, Sha'ul the son of Kish, Avner the son of Ner and Yo'av the son of Tz'ruyah had dedicated. In short, if anyone had dedicated anything, Shlomit and his brothers were in charge of it.