Now Cain [a]talked with Abel his [b]brother; and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and (A)killed him.

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  1. Genesis 4:8 Lit. said to
  2. Genesis 4:8 Sam., LXX, Syr., Vg. add “Let us go out to the field.”

27 Now when Abner had returned to Hebron, Joab (A)took him aside in the gate to speak with him privately, and there [a]stabbed him (B)in the stomach, so that he died for the blood of (C)Asahel his brother.

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  1. 2 Samuel 3:27 Lit. struck

10 But Amasa did not notice the sword that was in Joab’s hand. And (A)he struck him with it (B)in the stomach, and his entrails poured out on the ground; and he did not strike him again. Thus he died.

Then Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.

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31 Then the king said to him, (A)“Do as he has said, and strike him down and bury him, (B)that you may take away from me and from the house of my father the innocent blood which Joab shed.

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

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  1. 1 Kings 2:32 Or bloodshed

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