Quotes About Abner

Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man [Abner] fallen this day in Israel?

My God, my God, I find in thy book that fear is a stifling spirit, a spirit of suffocation; that Ishbosheth could not speak, nor reply in his own defence to Abner, because he was afraid.

His wifeís name was Ahinoam daughter of Ahimaaz. The name of the commander of his army was Abner, the son of Saulís uncle Ner.

Saulís father Kish and Abnerís father Ner were sons of Abiel.

As Saul had watched David going out to confront the Philistine, he said to Abner the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this young man?” “As surely as you live, O king,” Abner replied, “I do not know.”

And David shouted to the troops and to Abner son of Ner, “Will you not answer me, Abner?” “Who calls to the king?” Abner replied.

Meanwhile, Abner son of Ner, the commander of Saulís army, took Saulís son Ish-bosheth, moved him to Mahanaim,

One day Abner son of Ner and the servants of Ish-bosheth son of Saul marched out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

The battle that day was intense, and Abner and the men of Israel were defeated by the servants of David.

During the war between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner had continued to strengthen his position in the house of Saul.

May God punish Abner, and ever so severely, if I do not do for David what the LORD has sworn to him:

Abner also spoke to the Benjamites and went to Hebron to tell David all that seemed good to Israel and to the whole house of Benjamin.

Just then Davidís soldiers and Joab returned from a raid, bringing with them a great plunder. But Abner was not with David in Hebron because David had sent him on his way in peace.

When Joab and all his troops arrived, he was informed, “Abner son of Ner came to see the king, who sent him on his way in peace.”

Afterward, David heard about this and said, “I and my kingdom are forever guiltless before the LORD concerning the blood of Abner son of Ner.

And the king sang this lament for Abner: “Should Abner die the death of a fool?

So on that day all the troops and all Israel were convinced that the king had no part in the murder of Abner son of Ner.

over the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead was Iddo son of Zechariah; over Benjamin was Jaasiel son of Abner;