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3 After that, the people who wanted Saul’s son to be the next king fought a long war against those who wanted David to be the king. As the war continued, more people began to support David, while fewer people supported Saul’s son. 2 After David moved to Hebron, his wives gave birth to sons. The oldest was Amnon, whose mother was Ahinoam from the city of Jezreel. 3 The next son was Chileab, whose mother was Abigail, the widow of Nabal, from the city of Carmel. The next son was Absalom, whose mother was Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, the king of the region of Geshur. 4 The next son was Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith. The next son was Shephatiah, whose mother was Abital. 5 The youngest son was Ithream, whose mother was Eglah, another one of David’s wives. Their mothers all gave birth to these sons of David in Hebron.
6 During the war between those who wanted Saul’s son to be the next king and those who wanted David to be the king, Abner became a powerful leader among those who wanted Saul’s son to be the king. 7 Saul had a secondary wife whose name was Rizpah. Aiah was her father. One day Ishbosheth accused Abner of having sexual relations with her.
8 Abner became very angry about what Ishbosheth said to him. He said to Ishbosheth, “I am not some disloyal person from the tribe of Judah! From the beginning I have been loyal to Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends. And I have kept David’s army from defeating you. So you should not be accusing me now of doing something wrong with this woman!9-10 9-10Yahweh solemnly promised David that he would make him the next king instead of one of Saul’s descendants. He promised to make David the ruler not just of the tribe of Judah but also of all the other tribes of Israel. He promised that David would rule all the territory extending from the city of Dan far in the north to the city of Beersheba far in the south. I am going to make that happen! If I do not, may God take away my position and my possessions and do even worse things to me.” 11 What Abner said made Ishbosheth so afraid of him that he could not say anything to him in reply.
12 Then Abner sent some of his men to David at Hebron with this message: “I am the most powerful leader among the other tribes of Israel. So if you make an agreement with me, then I can help you. I will make all the people of Israel want you to be their king.” 13 David told the messengers to tell Abner. “All right, I am willing to make an agreement with you. But there is one thing you must do. Otherwise, I will not meet with you so that we can make that agreement in person. When you come to meet with me, you must bring my wife Michal, Saul’s daughter, to me.” 14 Abner agreed to get Michal for David. So David sent messengers to Ishbosheth to tell him, “I killed 100 Philistine soldiers and cut off their foreskins to give to Saul to pay for Michal to be my wife. So now, give her back to me!”
15 Saul had taken Michal away from David and given her to Paltiel son of Laish. But Ishbosheth sent some men to take Michal away from Paltiel. 16 But when they took her, Paltiel followed her, crying as he went along. But when they reached the city of Bahurim, Abner told him, “You must go back home!” So he did.
17 Before going to see David, Abner had sent messengers to the Israelite leaders to tell them, “I know that for a long time you have wanted David to be your king. 18 So this is what you should do. Make him your king now. Keep in mind that Yahweh spoke of David as someone who served him well. Remember that he said he would use David to rescue us Israelites, his people, from the Philistines and all the other enemies who would oppress us.” 19 Abner had also spoken personally with the leaders of the tribe of Benjamin, to which Saul had belonged. The people of that tribe and of all the other Israelite tribes had agreed to make David their king. So Abner went to Hebron to tell David that personally.
20 Abner respectfully brought 20 of his soldiers with him when he went to see David at Hebron. David served a feast to all of them. 21 After they had eaten, Abner said to David, “Sir, I know that you have wanted to be the king of all the Israelites. Let me now go and get leaders from all the tribes of Israel and bring them here so they can make an agreement with you to be their king.” David agreed, and he allowed Abner and his men to leave safely.
22 While Abner was visiting with David, Joab was leading David’s soldiers to attack some of their enemies. They defeated those enemies and captured many valuable possessions. When they brought what they had captured back to Hebron, Abner was no longer there, since David had already sent him away safely. 23 When Joab and the soldiers who were with him arrived, someone told Joab that Abner had come there and talked with the king and that the king had allowed Abner to leave safely.
24 So Joab went to the king and said, “You should not have done that! Listen to me! You had Abner, the commander of your enemy’s army, right here where you could have made him your prisoner. But instead, you allowed him to leave, and now he has gotten away! 25 You know what kind of person Abner son of Ner is! He only pretended that he wanted to make an agreement with you. He really wanted to find out how you lead your armies and what plans you were making!”
26 Then Joab left David and sent some messengers to get Abner. They found him at the cistern of Sirah and brought him back to Hebron. David did not know that they had done this. 27 When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pretended he wanted to speak with him privately. He led him into the shaded area between the inner and outer gate in the city wall. But there he stabbed Abner in the stomach and killed him. Joab did that to get revenge against Abner for killing his brother Asahel.
28 David later found out what had happened. He said, “I was not involved in any way in the murder of Abner son of Ner. So may Yahweh never punish me or any of my descendants who are kings after me for his death. 29 May Yahweh punish Joab and his relatives instead. I hope that there will always be someone in his family who has sores or who is a leper or who cannot walk without a crutch or who dies in battle or who does not have enough food to eat!”
30 David cursed Joab in this way because it was not right for Joab and his brother Abishai to have murdered Abner. He had killed their brother Asahel in battle at Gibeon, so they should not have taken revenge.
31 Then David told Joab and all of his soldiers, “I want you to tear your clothes and wear rough cloth to show that you are sad that Abner has died!” When men carried Abner’s body to his grave in a casket, King David walked right behind it to honor him. 32 They buried Abner’s body at Hebron. At Abner’s grave, King David cried loudly, and all the other people also cried.
33 Then King David sang a sad song about Abner. He sang, “It was not right for Abner to die like a criminal! 34 No one tied his hands or put chains on his feet, as they would have done if he had been guilty of a crime. No, men murdered him unjustly!” After the other people heard David sing this song for Abner, they cried even more sadly.
35 Later that day some people came and invited David to join in the customary funeral meal. But David refused since he wanted to go without eating to show how sad he was that Abner had died. He said, “I swear that I will not even taste any kind of food for the rest of this day on which we buried Abner! If I do, I hope that God will make very bad things happen to me.” 36 Everyone who was present at the funeral saw what David did, and it pleased them, just as other things that King David had done had pleased the people he ruled.
37 Because he had mourned deeply and sincerely for Abner, the people of the tribe of Judah and the people of all the other tribes of Israel realized then that King David had not wanted Joab to kill Abner. 38 King David told his officials, “I hope you realize that a great leader has now died in Israel. 39 Even though Yahweh appointed me to be the king, I now feel weak. These two sons of Zeruiah, Joab and Abishai, are very violent. I cannot control them. So I hope that Yahweh will punish them as they deserve for this wicked thing that they have done!”
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