The Antiquities of the Jews, 7.285

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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285and for the same cause it was that he killed Abner. But as to that former wicked action, the death of his brother Asahel, which he seemed to revenge, afforded him a decent pretense, and made that crime a pardonable one; but in this murder of Amasa there was no such covering for it.

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