¹ And when Saul's son Ish-bosheth had news that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.

⁴ Then the people of the land made the hands of the people of Judah feeble, troubling them with fear in their building;

²⁴ The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.

⁷ For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water;

² Saying, Where is the King of the Jews whose birth has now taken place? We have seen his star in the east and have come to give him worship.

³ And when it came to the ears of Herod the king, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

¹⁶ In that day it will be said to Jerusalem, Have no fear: O Zion, let not your hands be feeble.

⁴³ The king of Babylon has had news of them, and his hands have become feeble: trouble has come on him and pain like the pain of a woman in childbirth.

³ Make strong the feeble hands, give support to the shaking knees.

⁹ For they were hoping to put fear in us, saying, Their hands will become feeble and give up the work so that it may not get done. But now, O God, make my hands strong.

² And I will come up with him when he is tired and feeble, and make him full of fear: and all the people with him will go in flight; and I will make an attack on the king only:

²⁷ And when Abner was back in Hebron, Joab took him on one side by the doorway of the town to have a word with him quietly, and there he gave him a wound in the stomach, causing his death in payment for the death of his brother Asahel.