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 3:37
3:37 All the people and all Israel realized on that day that the killing of Abner son of Ner was not done at the king’s instigation. 3
1 tnHeb “and he struck him down there [in] the stomach.”
2 tnHeb “and he [i.e., Abner] died on account of the blood of Asahel his [i.e., Joab’s] brother.”