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2 Samuel 3:32-34
Contemporary English Version
2 Samuel 3:32-34
Contemporary English Version
32 Abner was buried in Hebron, while David and everyone else stood at the tomb and cried loudly. 33 Then the king sang a funeral song about Abner:
Abner, why should you
have died like an outlaw?[a]
34 No one tied your hands
or chained your feet,
yet you died as a victim
of murderers.
Everyone started crying again.
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- 3.33 outlaw: Or “fool.”
2 Samuel 3:32-34
New International Version
2 Samuel 3:32-34
New International Version
32 They buried Abner in Hebron, and the king wept(A) aloud at Abner’s tomb. All the people wept also.
33 The king sang this lament(B) for Abner:
“Should Abner have died as the lawless die?
34 Your hands were not bound,
your feet were not fettered.(C)
You fell as one falls before the wicked.”
And all the people wept over him again.
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