²⁷ Now when Abner^(A) returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into an inner chamber, as if to speak with him privately. And there, to avenge the blood of his brother Asahel, Joab stabbed him^(B) in the stomach, and he died.^(C)

⁶ They went into the inner part of the house as if to get some wheat, and they stabbed^(A) him in the stomach. Then Rekab and his brother Baanah slipped away.

¹² Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the road, and the man saw that all the troops came to a halt^(A) there. When he realized that everyone who came up to Amasa stopped, he dragged him from the road into a field and threw a garment over him.