Discovery Box2 Samuel 3:27 
Context3:27 When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate as if to speak privately with him. Joab then stabbed him 1 in the abdomen and killed him, avenging the shed blood of his brother Asahel. 2
2 Samuel 3:34
Context3:34 Your hands 3 were not bound,
and your feet were not put into irons.
You fell the way one falls before criminals.”
All the people 4 wept over him again.
1 tn Heb “and he struck him down there [in] the stomach.”
2 tn Heb “and he [i.e., Abner] died on account of the blood of Asahel his [i.e., Joab’s] brother.”
3 tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew manuscripts and several ancient versions in reading “your hands,” rather than “your hand.”
4 tc 4QSama lacks the words “all the people.”
