2 Samuel 3:6-8

Common English Bible

Joab kills Abner

⁶ Throughout the war between Saul’s house and David’s house, Abner was gaining power in Saul’s house. ⁷ Now Saul had a secondary wife named Rizpah, Aiah’s daughter. Ishbosheth^[a] said to Abner, “Why have you had sex with my father’s secondary wife?”

⁸ Abner got very angry over what Ishbosheth had said.

“Am I some sort of dog’s head?”^[b] Abner asked. “I’ve been nothing but loyal to the house of your father Saul and to his brothers and his friends. I haven’t handed you over to David, but today you accuse me of doing something wrong with this woman.