2 Samuel 3:27

3:27 When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate as if to speak privately with him. Joab then stabbed him ¹  in the abdomen and killed him, avenging the shed blood of his brother Asahel. ² 

2 Samuel 3:34

3:34 Your hands ³  were not bound,

and your feet were not put into irons.

You fell the way one falls before criminals.”

All the people ⁴  wept over him again.

Psalms 39:8

39:8 Deliver me from all my sins of rebellion!

Do not make me the object of fools’ insults!

Isaiah 14:10

14:10 All of them respond to you, saying:

‘You too have become weak like us!

You have become just like us!

Ezekiel 16:51-52

16:51 Samaria has not committed half the sins you have; you have done more abominable deeds than they did. ⁵  You have made your sisters appear righteous with all the abominable things you have done. 16:52 So now, bear your disgrace, because you have given your sisters reason to justify their behavior. ⁶  Because the sins you have committed were more abominable than those of your sisters; they have become more righteous than you. So now, be ashamed and bear the disgrace of making your sisters appear righteous.

¹ tn Heb “and he struck him down there [in] the stomach.”

² tn Heb “and he [i.e., Abner] died on account of the blood of Asahel his [i.e., Joab’s] brother.”

³ tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew manuscripts and several ancient versions in reading “your hands,” rather than “your hand.”

⁴ tc 4QSam^a lacks the words “all the people.”

⁵ tn Or “you have multiplied your abominable deeds beyond them.”

⁶ tn Heb “because you have interceded for your sisters with your sins.”