Avner

But Abner son of Ner, Saul’s army commander, had taken Ish-bosheth son of Saul and brought him across to Mahanaim

2. Samuel (II Samuel) ·Bölüm 2 ·2:8 ·machine translation (sefaria)

Abner said to Joab, “Let the young men come forward and sport before us.” “Yes, let them,” Joab answered.

2. Samuel (II Samuel) ·Bölüm 2 ·2:14 ·machine translation (sefaria)

A fierce battle ensued that day, and Abner and the men of Israel were routed by David’s soldiers.

2. Samuel (II Samuel) ·Bölüm 2 ·2:17 ·machine translation (sefaria)

Abner looked back and shouted, “Is that you, Asahel?” “Yes, it is,” he called back.

2. Samuel (II Samuel) ·Bölüm 2 ·2:20 ·machine translation (sefaria)

Abner said to him, “Turn to the right or to the left, and seize one of our boys and strip off his tunic.” But Asahel would not leave off.

2. Samuel (II Samuel) ·Bölüm 2 ·2:21 ·machine translation (sefaria)

Abner again begged Asahel, “Stop pursuing me, or I’ll have to strike you down. How will I look your brother Joab in the face?”

2. Samuel (II Samuel) ·Bölüm 2 ·2:22 ·machine translation (sefaria)

When he refused to desist, Abner struck him in the belly with a backward thrust of his spear and the spear protruded from his back. He fell there and died on the spot. And all who came to the place where Asahel fell and died halted;

2. Samuel (II Samuel) ·Bölüm 2 ·2:23 ·machine translation (sefaria)

Abner then called out to Joab, “Must the sword devour forever? You know how bitterly it’s going to end! How long will you delay ordering your troops to stop the pursuit of their own kindred?”

2. Samuel (II Samuel) ·Bölüm 2 ·2:26 ·machine translation (sefaria)

Abner and his men marched through the Arabah all that night and, after crossing the Jordan, they marched through all of Bithron until they came to Mahanaim.

2. Samuel (II Samuel) ·Bölüm 2 ·2:29 ·machine translation (sefaria)

During the war between the House of Saul and the House of David, Abner supported the House of Saul.

2. Samuel (II Samuel) ·Bölüm 3 ·3:6 ·machine translation (sefaria)

When Saul saw David going out to assault the Philistine, he asked his army commander Abner, “Whose son is that young man, Abner?” And Abner replied, “By your life, Your Majesty, I do not know.”

1. Samuel (I Samuel) ·Bölüm 17 ·17:55 ·machine translation (sefaria)

So when David returned after killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him to Saul, with the head of the Philistine still in his hand.

1. Samuel (I Samuel) ·Bölüm 17 ·17:57 ·machine translation (sefaria)

When the king took his usual place on the seat by the wall, Jonathan rose and Abner sat down at Saul’s side; but David’s place remained vacant.

1. Samuel (I Samuel) ·Bölüm 20 ·20:25 ·machine translation (sefaria)

So David and Abishai approached the troops by night, and found Saul fast asleep inside the barricade, his spear stuck in the ground at his head, and Abner and the troops sleeping around him.

1. Samuel (I Samuel) ·Bölüm 26 ·26:7 ·machine translation (sefaria)

And David shouted to the troops and to Abner son of Ner, “Abner, aren’t you going to answer?” And Abner shouted back, “Who are you to shout at the king?”

1. Samuel (I Samuel) ·Bölüm 26 ·26:14 ·machine translation (sefaria)

All that Samuel the seer had dedicated, and Saul son of Kish, and Abner son of Ner, and Joab son of Zeruiah—or [what] any other man had dedicated, was under the charge of Shelomith and his brothers.

1. Tarihler (I Chronicles) ·Bölüm 26 ·26:28 ·machine translation (sefaria)