Quotes about Abner
Saul’s father Kish and Abner’s father Ner were sons of Abiel.
- 1 Samuel 14:51
As Saul had watched David going out to confront the Philistine, he said to Abner the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this young man?” “As surely as you live, O king,” Abner replied, “I do not know.”
- 1 Samuel 17:55
So when David returned from killing the Philistine, still holding his head in his hand, Abner took him and brought him before Saul.
- 1 Samuel 17:57
Then David set out and went to the place where Saul had camped. He saw the place where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the general of his army, had lain down. Saul was lying inside the inner circle of the camp, with the troops camped around him.
- 1 Samuel 26:5
That night David and Abishai came to the troops, and Saul was lying there asleep in the inner circle of the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. And Abner and the troops were lying around him.
- 1 Samuel 26:7
And David shouted to the troops and to Abner son of Ner, “Will you not answer me, Abner?” “Who calls to the king?” Abner replied.
- 1 Samuel 26:14
So David said to Abner, “You are a man, aren’t you? And who in Israel is your equal? Why then did you not protect your lord the king when one of the people came to destroy him?
- 1 Samuel 26:15
Meanwhile, Abner son of Ner, the commander of Saul’s army, took Saul’s son Ish-bosheth, moved him to Mahanaim,
- 2 Samuel 2:8
One day Abner son of Ner and the servants of Ish-bosheth son of Saul marched out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
- 2 Samuel 2:12
And Abner glanced back and said, “Is that you, Asahel?” “It is,” Asahel replied.
- 2 Samuel 2:20
The Benjamites rallied to Abner, formed a single unit, and took their stand atop a hill.
- 2 Samuel 2:25
And all that night Abner and his men marched through the Arabah. They crossed the Jordan, marched all morning, and arrived at Mahanaim.
- 2 Samuel 2:29