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Abner

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Ner

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Jaasiel

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Named in 53 verses

• 1 Samuel 14:50 The name of Saul’s wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. The name of the captain of his army was Abner the son of Ner, Saul’s uncle.
• 1 Samuel 14:51 Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
• 1 Samuel 17:55 When Saul saw David go out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the army, “Abner, whose son is this youth?” Abner said, “As your soul lives,
• 1 Samuel 17:57 As David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.
• 1 Samuel 20:25 The king sat on his seat, as at other times, even on the seat by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul’s side, but David’s place was empty.
• 1 Samuel 26:5 Then David arose and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David saw the place where Saul lay, with Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his army. Saul
• 1 Samuel 26:7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night; and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head;
• 1 Samuel 26:14 and David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, “Don’t you answer, Abner?” Then Abner answered, “Who are you who calls to the king?”
• 1 Samuel 26:15 David said to Abner, “Aren’t you a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord the king? For one of the people came in to de
• 2 Samuel 2:8 Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s army, had taken Ishbosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim.
• 2 Samuel 2:12 Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
• 2 Samuel 2:14 Abner said to Joab, “Please let the young men arise and compete before us!” Joab said, “Let them arise!”
• 2 Samuel 2:17 The battle was very severe that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before David’s servants.
• 2 Samuel 2:19 Asahel pursued Abner. He didn’t turn to the right hand or to the left from following Abner.
• 2 Samuel 2:20 Then Abner looked behind him and said, “Is that you, Asahel?” He answered, “It is.”
• 2 Samuel 2:21 Abner said to him, “Turn away to your right hand or to your left, and grab one of the young men, and take his armor.” But Asahel would not turn away from follow
• 2 Samuel 2:22 Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn away from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I look Joab your brother in the face?”
• 2 Samuel 2:23 However, he refused to turn away. Therefore Abner with the back end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down
• 2 Samuel 2:24 But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. The sun went down when they had come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
• 2 Samuel 2:25 The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill.
• 2 Samuel 2:26 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, bef
• 2 Samuel 2:29 Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; and they passed over the Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and came to Mahanaim.
• 2 Samuel 2:30 Joab returned from following Abner; and when he had gathered all the people together, nineteen men of David’s and Asahel were missing.
• 2 Samuel 2:31 But David’s servants had struck Benjamin Abner’s men so that three hundred sixty men died.
• 2 Samuel 3:6 While there was war between Saul’s house and David’s house, Abner made himself strong in Saul’s house.
• 2 Samuel 3:7 Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah; and Ishbosheth said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”
• 2 Samuel 3:8 Then Abner was very angry about Ishbosheth’s words, and said, “Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to your father Saul’s house, to hi
• 2 Samuel 3:9 God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as Yahweh has sworn to David, I don’t do even so to him:
• 2 Samuel 3:11 He could not answer Abner another word, because he was afraid of him.
• 2 Samuel 3:12 Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, “Whose is the land?” and saying, “Make your alliance with me, and behold, my hand will be with you to brin
• 2 Samuel 3:16 Her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go! Return!” and he returned.
• 2 Samuel 3:17 Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, “In times past, you sought for David to be king over you.
• 2 Samuel 3:19 Abner also spoke in the ears of Benjamin; and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel and to the whole house of B
• 2 Samuel 3:20 So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. David made Abner and the men who were with him a feast.
• 2 Samuel 3:21 Abner said to David, “I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over a
• 2 Samuel 3:22 Behold, David’s servants and Joab came from a raid and brought in a great plunder with them; but Abner was not with David in Hebron, for he had sent him away, a
• 2 Samuel 3:23 When Joab and all the army who was with him had come, they told Joab, “Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has sent him away, and he has gone in peace
• 2 Samuel 3:24 Then Joab came to the king and said, “What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away, and he is already gone?
• 2 Samuel 3:25 You know Abner the son of Ner. He came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do.”
• 2 Samuel 3:26 When Joab had come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David didn’t know it.
• 2 Samuel 3:27 When Abner had returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died
• 2 Samuel 3:28 Afterward, when David heard it, he said, “I and my kingdom are guiltless before Yahweh forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.
• 2 Samuel 3:30 So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
• 2 Samuel 3:31 David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn in front of Abner.” King David f
• 2 Samuel 3:32 They buried Abner in Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice and wept at Abner’s grave; and all the people wept.
• 2 Samuel 3:33 The king lamented for Abner, and said, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?
• 2 Samuel 3:37 So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner.
• 2 Samuel 4:1 When Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
• 2 Samuel 4:12 David commanded his young men, and they killed them, cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of
• 1 Kings 2:5 “Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner and to Ama
• 1 Kings 2:32 Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David
• 1 Chronicles 26:28 All that Samuel the seer, Saul the son of Kish, Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah had dedicated, whoever had dedicated anything, it was under th
• 1 Chronicles 27:21 of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah; of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner;