²⁷ So when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him privately, and there ^(A)he struck him in the belly, so that he died on account of the blood of his brother Asahel.

^32 (A)The Lord will return his blood on his own head, ^(B)because he ^[a]struck two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, while my father David did not know about it: ^(C)Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and ^(D)Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.