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33 Then the king sang this funeral song[a] for Abner:

“Should Abner have died like a fool dies?
34 Your hands weren’t bound,
    your feet weren’t chained,
    but you have fallen
    like someone falls before the wicked.”
Then the troops cried over Abner again.

35 Then all the soldiers came to urge David to eat something while it was still day, but David swore, “May God deal harshly with me and worse still if I eat bread or anything else before the sun goes down.”

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  1. 2 Samuel 3:33 Or lament

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