Ner נֵר

Abner's father. Ner was the father of Abner, the commander of King Saul's army, and a member of Saul's family.

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Where Ner appears

2 Samuel (6), 1 Samuel (4), 1 Kings (2), 1 Chronicles (2)

Key verses

• 1 Samuel 14:50 first mention — And the name of Saul’s wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz: and the name of the captain of his host was Abner, the son of Ner, Saul’s uncle.
• 1 Samuel 14:51 — And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
• 1 Samuel 26:5 — And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him.
• 2 Samuel 2:8 — But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s host, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
• 2 Samuel 2:12 — And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
• 2 Samuel 3:25 — Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou doest.
• 2 Samuel 3:28 — And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner:
• 2 Samuel 3:37 — For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.
• 1 Kings 2:5 — Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
• 1 Kings 2:32 — And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
• 1 Chronicles 9:36 — And his firstborn son Abdon, then Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab,
• 1 Chronicles 26:28 — And all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated; and whosoever had dedicated any thing, it was under the hand of Shelomith, and of his brethren.

Person data: STEPBible.org TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), adapted. Verse text: King James Version.