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2 Kings 3:30

So Joab and Abisai his brother slew Abner, because he had killed their brother Asael at Gabaon in the battle.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Igitur Joab et Abisai frater ejus interfecerunt Abner, eo quod occidisset Asaël fratrem eorum in Gabaon in prælio.
Septuagint (Swete): Ἰωὰβ δὲ καὶ Ἀβεσσὰ ὁ ἀδελφὸς αὐτοῦ διεπαρετηροῦντο τὸν Ἀβεννὴρ ἀνθ᾽ ὧν ἐθανάτωσεν τὸν Ἀσαὴλ τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτῶν ἐν Γαβαὼν ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ.
Hebrew (WLC): וְיוֹאָב֙ וַאֲבִישַׁ֣י אָחִ֔יו הָרְג֖וּ לְאַבְנֵ֑ר עַל֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר הֵמִ֜ית אֶת עֲשָׂהאֵ֧ל אֲחִיהֶ֛ם בְּגִבְע֖וֹן בַּמִּלְחָמָֽה

The Fathers on this verse

St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom, Matthew XII. 33

But who avenged himself justly, yet kindled innumerable ills, and pierced himself through with many calamities and sorrows? The captain of David’s host. For he both stirred up a grievous war, and suffered unnumbered evils; not one whereof would have happened, had he but known how to command himself.