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2 Samuel 3:32-34
New English Translation
2 Samuel 3:32-34
New English Translation
32 So they buried Abner in Hebron. The king cried loudly[a] over Abner’s grave, and all the people wept too. 33 The king chanted the following lament for Abner:
“Should Abner have died like a fool?
34 Your hands[b] were not bound,
and your feet were not put into irons.
You fell the way one falls before criminals.”
All the people[c] wept over him again.
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- 2 Samuel 3:32 tn Heb “lifted up his voice and wept.” The expression is a verbal hendiadys.
- 2 Samuel 3:34 tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew manuscripts and several ancient versions in reading “your hands,” rather than “your hand.”
- 2 Samuel 3:34 tc 4QSama lacks the words “all the people.”
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