3:26 Then Joab left David and sent messengers after Abner. They brought him back from the well of Sirah. (But David was not aware of it.)
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
3:28 When David later heard about this, he said, “I and my kingdom are forever innocent before the Lord of the shed blood of Abner son of Ner!
3:29 May his blood whirl over
3:30 So Joab and his brother Abishai killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel in Gibeon during the battle.
3:31 David instructed Joab and all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes! Put on sackcloth! Lament before Abner!” Now King David followed
“Should Abner have died like a fool?
3:34 Your hands
and your feet were not put into irons.
You fell the way one falls before criminals.”
All the people
3:36 All the people noticed this and it pleased them.
3:38 Then the king said to his servants, “Do you not realize that a great leader