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Ishbaal Assassinated

When Saul’s son Ishbaal[a] heard that Abner had died at Hebron, his courage failed, and all Israel was dismayed.(A)

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  1. 4.1 Heb lacks Ishbaal

Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to build,(A)

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Therefore all hands will be feeble,
    and every human heart will melt,(A)

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24 “We have heard news of them;
    our hands fall helpless;
anguish has taken hold of us,
    pain as of a woman in labor.(A)

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asking, “Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star in the east[a] and have come to pay him homage.”(A) When King Herod heard this, he was frightened, and all Jerusalem with him,

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  1. 2.2 Or at its rising

16 On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem:
“Do not fear, O Zion;
    do not let your hands grow weak.(A)

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43 The king of Babylon heard news of them,
    and his hands fell helpless;
anguish seized him,
    pain like that of a woman in labor.(A)

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Strengthen the weak hands
    and make firm the feeble knees.(A)

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for they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done.” But now, strengthen my hands.

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I will come upon him while he is weary and discouraged and throw him into a panic, and all the people who are with him will flee. I will strike down only the king,(A)

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27 When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gateway to speak with him privately, and there he stabbed him in the stomach. So he died on account of the blood of Asahel, Joab’s[a] brother.(A)

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  1. 3.27 Heb his