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2 Samuel 13:26
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2 Samuel 13:26
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26 “Well, then,” Absalom said, “if you can’t come, how about sending my brother Amnon with us?”
“Why Amnon?” the king asked.
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2 Samuel 13:26
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2 Samuel 13:26
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26 Then Absalom said, “If not, please let my brother Amnon come with us.”
The king asked him, “Why should he go with you?”
Psalm 55:21
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Psalm 55:21
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21 His words are as smooth as butter,
but in his heart is war.
His words are as soothing as lotion,
but underneath are daggers!
Psalm 55:21
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Psalm 55:21
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2 Samuel 20:9
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2 Samuel 20:9
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9 “How are you, my cousin?” Joab said and took him by the beard with his right hand as though to kiss him.
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2 Samuel 20:9
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2 Samuel 20:9
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9 Joab said to Amasa, “How are you, my brother?” Then Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
2 Samuel 11:13-15
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2 Samuel 11:13-15
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13 Then David invited him to dinner and got him drunk. But even then he couldn’t get Uriah to go home to his wife. Again he slept at the palace entrance with the king’s palace guard.
David Arranges for Uriah’s Death
14 So the next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and gave it to Uriah to deliver. 15 The letter instructed Joab, “Station Uriah on the front lines where the battle is fiercest. Then pull back so that he will be killed.”
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2 Samuel 11:13-15
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2 Samuel 11:13-15
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13 At David’s invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master’s servants; he did not go home.
14 In the morning David wrote a letter(A) to Joab and sent it with Uriah. 15 In it he wrote, “Put Uriah out in front where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down(B) and die.(C)”
2 Samuel 3:27
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2 Samuel 3:27
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27 When Abner arrived back at Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gateway as if to speak with him privately. But then he stabbed Abner in the stomach and killed him in revenge for killing his brother Asahel.
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2 Samuel 3:27
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2 Samuel 3:27
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27 Now when Abner(A) returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into an inner chamber, as if to speak with him privately. And there, to avenge the blood of his brother Asahel, Joab stabbed him(B) in the stomach, and he died.(C)
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