2 Samuel 3:33 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³³ The king lamented for Abner, saying, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³³ And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³³ And the king lamented over Abner and said, Should Abner die as a fool dies?

American Standard Version (1901)

³³ And the king lamented for Abner, and said, Should Abner die as a fool dieth?

Common English Bible

³³ Then the king sang this funeral song for Abner: “Should Abner have died like a fool dies?

Catholic Public Domain Version

³³ And the king, mourning and lamenting Abner, said: "By no means has Abner died the way that cowards usually die.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³³ And the king, mourning and lamenting over Abner, said: Not as cowards are wont to die hath Abner died.

2 Samuel 3:33 Cross References

2 Samuel 1:17

David intoned this lamentation over Saul and his son Jonathan.

2 Samuel 3:34

Your hands were not bound; your feet were not fettered; as one falls before the wicked you have fallen.” And all the people wept over him again.

2 Chronicles 35:25

Jeremiah also uttered a lament for Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women have spoken of Josiah in their laments to this day. They made these a custom in Israel; they are recorded in the Laments.

Proverbs 18:7

The mouths of fools are their ruin, and their lips a snare to themselves.

Jeremiah 17:11

Like the partridge hatching what it did not lay, so are all who amass wealth unjustly; in midlife it will leave them, and at their end they will prove to be fools.

Ezekiel 32:16

This is a lamentation; it shall be chanted. The women of the nations shall chant it. Over Egypt and all its hordes they shall chant it, says the Lord God.