16 “‘Now if it was with an instrument of iron that he has struck him so that he dies, he is a murderer.+ Without fail the murderer should be put to death.+

27 When Abʹner returned to Heʹbron,+ Joʹab now led him aside inside the gate to speak with him quietly.+ However, there he struck him in the abdomen,+ so that he died because of the blood of Asʹa·hel+ his brother.

5 “And you yourself also well know what Joʹab the son of Ze·ruʹiah did to me+ in what he did to two chiefs of the armies of Israel, to Abʹner+ the son of Ner and A·maʹsa+ the son of Jeʹther,+ when he killed them and placed the blood+ of war in peacetime and put the blood of war on his belt that was about his hips and in his sandals that were on his feet.