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And the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimath, and the name of the commander of the army was Abner, the son of Ner, Saul's uncle.
And Kish was Saul's father, and Ner, the father of Abner, was the son of Abiel.
Then David got up and went to the place where Saul had camped. And David saw the place where Saul lay, and [also] Abner, the son of Ner, the commander of the army. Saul lay inside the barricade, and the people camped around him.
And David called to the people and to Abner, the son of Ner, and said, "Will you not answer, Abner?" And Abner answered and said, "Who are you who calls to the king?"
But Abner, the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, had taken Ish-Bosheth, Saul's [youngest] son, and brought him over to Mahanaim,
And [Saul's commander] Abner, the son of Ner, together with the servants of Saul's [youngest] son Ish-Bosheth, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
When Joab and all his army that was with him had come, they told Joab and said, "Avner, the son of Ner, came to the king, and he sent him away, and he went in peace."
You know Avner, the son of Ner; he came to deceive you, to learn how you come and go and to know all that you do."
And afterward, when David heard it, he said, "I and my kingdom are without guilt before the Lord (Yahweh) forever for the blood of Avner, the son of Ner.
And all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not the king who was behind the killing of Avner, the son of Ner.
And you [Solomon] also know what Joab, the son of Zeruiah, did to me—how he struck down (killed) two of Israel's commanders, Abner, the son of Ner [], and Amasa, the son of Jether []. In times of peace, he struck them down as if in battle; when he shed their blood as in battle, he stained his belt around his hips and his sandals on his feet. [The words used for belt and sandals in this verse are never used in war (), which reinforces that the killing did not take place in a battle context.]
And the Lord (Yahweh) will return his blood upon his own head, because he struck down two men who were more righteous and better than he, and he killed them with the sword, and my father David did not know it. Abner, the son of Ner, commander of Israel [], and Amasa, the son of Jether, commander of Judah [].
And likewise all that the seer Samuel and Saul, son of Kish, and Abner, son of Ner, and Joab, son of Zeruiah, had consecrated. Everyone who consecrated anything left it in the care of Shelomith and his brothers.
