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And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in 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.

New Defender's Study Bible Notes

3:27 returned to Hebron. It was doubly treacherous for Joab and Abishai (II Samuel 3:30) to kill Abner in Hebron, for Hebron was one of the cities of refuge (Joshua 20:2,7), and it was unlawful for an avenger of blood to take vengeance on a man slayer in a city of refuge without a trial.


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