2 Samuel 2:16

2:16 As they grappled with one another, each one stabbed his opponent with his sword and they fell dead together. ¹  So that place is called the Field of Flints; ²  it is in Gibeon.

2 Samuel 3:27

3:27 When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate as if to speak privately with him. Joab then stabbed him ³  in the abdomen and killed him, avenging the shed blood of his brother Asahel. ⁴ 

2 Samuel 20:10

20:10 Amasa did not protect himself from the knife in Joab’s other hand, and Joab ⁵  stabbed him in the abdomen, causing Amasa’s ⁶  intestines to spill out on the ground. There was no need to stab him again; the first blow was fatal. ⁷  Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bicri.

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¹ tn Heb “and they grabbed each one the head of his neighbor with his sword in the side of his neighbor and they fell together.”

² tn The meaning of the name “Helkath Hazzurim” (so NIV; KJV, NASB, NRSV similar) is not clear. BHK relates the name to the Hebrew term for “side,” and this is reflected in NAB “the Field of the Sides”; the Greek OT revocalizes the Hebrew to mean something like “Field of Adversaries.” Cf. also TEV, NLT “Field of Swords”; CEV “Field of Daggers.”

³ tn Heb “and he struck him down there [in] the stomach.”

⁴ tn Heb “and he [i.e., Abner] died on account of the blood of Asahel his [i.e., Joab’s] brother.”

⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Amasa) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷ tn Heb “and he did not repeat concerning him, and he died.”