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2 Samuel 3:34

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Your hands weren’t bound, and your feet weren’t put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell.”
All the people wept again over him.

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2 Samuel 3:34 in other translations

Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: As a man falleth before the children of iniquity, so didst thou fall. And all the people wept again over him.

2 Samuel 3:34 · American Standard Version

2 Samuel 3:34 in context

  1. 32They buried Abner in Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at Abner’s grave; and all the people wept.
  2. 33The king lamented for Abner, and said, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?
  3. 34Your hands weren’t bound, and your feet weren’t put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell.”
    All the people wept again over him.
  4. 35All the people came to urge David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, until the sun goes down.”
  5. 36All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatever the king did pleased all the people.