1 Kings 2:32

May Yahweh return his blood on his own head, because he attacked two men more righteous and better than himself and killed them with the sword, Abner son of Ner, the captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa son of Jether, the captain of the army of Judah, without my father David knowing it.

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And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.

In Context

31The king said to him, “Do as he has said. Kill him and bury him so that you may take away from me and from my father's house the blood that Joab shed without cause.

33So may their blood return on the head of Joab and on the head of his descendants forever. But to David and his descendants, and to his house, and to his throne, may there be peace forever from Yahweh.”

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Cross References

Genesis 4:11Now cursed are you from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

Numbers 32:23But if you do not do so, look, you will have sinned against Yahweh. Be sure that your sin will find you out.

Judges 9:57God made all the evil of the men of Shechem turn back on their own heads and on them came the curse of Jotham son of Jerub Baal.

2 Samuel 3:26When Joab left David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah, but David did not know this.

2 Samuel 3:37So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not the king's desire to kill Abner son of Ner.

2 Samuel 17:25Absalom had set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Amasa was the son of Jether the Ishmaelite + 17:25 Scholars disagree about whether the word describing Jether should be “Ishmaelite” as it is in some ancient Greek versions, or “Israelite” as it is in the ancient Hebrew text. Some scholars believe that “Israelite” is a scribal error in the Hebrew. “Ishmaelite” is the word used in a parallel passage (See: 1 Chron. 2:17), in both the ancient Hebrew and Greek texts. , who had slept with Abigail, who was the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah, the mother of Joab.

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 2:27-35

Joab Put to Death. ( b. c. 1015.) 26 And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord God before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted. 27 So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the Lord ; that he might fulfil the word of the Lord , which he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh. 28… Read the whole commentary →

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