2Sa 3:27 | NET2full | STEP | When Abner returned to Hebron , Joab took him aside at the gate as if to speak privately with him. Joab then stabbed him in the abdomen and killed him, avenging the shed blood of his brother Asahel .

2 Samuel 3:27

27 When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate as if to speak privately with him. Joab then stabbed him ^{▼▼tn Heb “and he struck him down there [in] the stomach.”} in the abdomen and killed him, avenging the shed blood of his brother Asahel. ^{▼▼tn Heb “and he [i.e., Abner] died on account of the blood of Asahel his [i.e., Joab’s] brother.”}