²⁷ So when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him privately, and there ^(A)he struck him in the belly so that he died on account of the blood of Asahel his brother.

¹³ Now David called him, and he ate and drank before him, and he ^(A)made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his bed ^(B)with his lord’s servants, but he did not go down to his house.

¹⁴ Now in the morning David ^(C)wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. ^15 (D)He had written in the letter, saying, “^[a]Place Uriah in the front line of the ^[b]fiercest battle and withdraw from him, ^(E)so that he may be struck down and die.”