II. Samvet III. 26.

_ ABNER BURIED.
's. sons-of iniquity, Heb. benee haylah.
DAVID
. Was good in their _ eyes.
26 And when Joab was_come_out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, which brought him again from the_ ewell_of xSirah: but David knew it
_|not.
27 And when Abner was_returned to Hebron, Joab took_him_aside in 4 the gate to speak with him quietly,-and smote him there under the fifth rib. that he died, for the_blood_of Asahel his brother.
28 And afterward when David heard it, he said,“ and my kingdom are guiltless before ‘the Lorp for ever from the_=blood_of Abner the_son_of Ner:
29FLet_it_rest on the_head_of Joab, and on all his father’s house; and tet_ there not fail from the_house_of Joab one_that_hath_an_issue, or that_is_a_ leper, or that_leaneth on a xstaff, or that_falleth_on the sword, or that_lack- eth bread.”
30 So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had_slain their brother -Asahél at Gibeon in the battle.
81 And David said to Joab, and @o all the people that were with him, “*Rend your clothes, and -gird you with sack- cloth, and ‘mourn before Abner.” And xking David himself +followed the bier.
82 And they buried -Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted_up his voice, and wept at the_grave_of Abner; and all the people wept.
83 And the king lamented over Abner, and said,
“'Died Abner as a fool dieth ?
34 Thy hands were not bound,
Nor thy feet put into fetters: As a-man_falleth before swicked men, so fellest thou.” ad all the people wept again over
im.
’ 8 And when all the people came to_ cause David to_eat meat while it was_yet xday, David sware, saying, “So ‘do =God to me, and 'more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be_down.”
36 And all the people took_notice of it, and it ~pleased them: as whatso- ever the king did «pleased all the people.
87 For all the people and all Israél understood xthat xday that it was not of the king to slay -Abner the_son_of Ner.
88 And the king said unto his ser- yants, “Know ye not that there -is a prince and a great_man fallen this xday in Israél ? :
89 And € am this day weak, though anointed king; and xthese «xmen the_ sons_of Zeruiah be too hard for me: Jthe-Lorp shall_reward the_doer_of xevil according_to his wickedness.”
AND when Saul’s son heard that
Abner was_dead in Hebron, his
hands were-_feeble, and all the Israélites were_troubled.
-2 And Saul’s son had two «men that were captains_of bands: the_name-_of the one was Baanah, and the_name_of the se other Rechab, the_sons_of Rim-