Bible Verses About Abner

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

And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him: Rend your garments, and gird yourselves with sackcloths, and mourn before the funeral of Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.

And when they had buried Abner in Hebron, king David lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner: and all the people also wept.

And the king mourning and lamenting over Abner, said: Not as cowards are wont to die, hath Abner died.

Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet laden with fetters: but as men fall before the children of iniquity, so didst thou fall. And all the people repeating it wept over him.

And when all the people came to take meat with David, while it was yet broad day, David swore, saying: So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread or any thing else before sunset.

And all the people heard, and they were pleased, and all that the king did seemed good in the sight of all the people.

And all the people, and all Israel understood that day that it was not the king's doing, that Abner the son of Ner was slain.

The king also said to his servants: Do you not know that a prince and a great man is slain this day in Israel?

But I as yet am tender, though anointed king. And these men the sons of Sarvia are too hard for me: the Lord reward him that doth evil according to his wickedness.

Out of the wars, and the spoils won in battles, which they had consecrated to the building and furniture of the temple of the Lord.

And all these things that Samuel the seer and Saul the son of Cis, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Sarvia had sanctified: and whosoever had sanctified those things, they were under the hand of Selemith and his brethren.