22 And Abner said to Asahel, Depart from me: [a]wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I be able to hold up my face to Joab thy brother?

23 And when he would not depart, Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the [b]fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him: and he fell down there, and died in his place. And as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down, and died, stood still.

24 Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they were come to the hill Ammah, that lieth before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 2:22 Why dost thou provoke me to kill thee?
  2. 2 Samuel 2:23 Some read, in those parts, whereas the lively parts lie: as the heart, the lungs, the liver, the milt, and the gall.

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