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 3:39
3:39 Today I am weak, even though I am anointed as king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too much for me to bear! 3 May the Lord punish appropriately the one who has done this evil thing!” 4
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.”
3 tnHeb “are hard from me.”
4 tnHeb “May the Lord repay the doer of the evil according to his evil” (NASB similar).