28 When David heard of it afterward, he at once said: “I and my kingdom, from the standpoint of Jehovah, are innocent for time indefinite of bloodguilt+ for Abʹner the son of Ner.

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.