2 Samuel 3:34 - Revised Standard Version CI

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 again over him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁴ Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: As a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁴ Your hands were not bound or your feet put into fetters; as a man falls before wicked men, so you fell. And all the people wept again over him.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁴ 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.

Common English Bible

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.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁴ Your hands are not bound, and your feet are not weighed down with fetters. But just as men often fall before the sons of iniquity, so you have fallen." And while repeating this, all the people wept over him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁴ Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet laden with fetters: but as men fall before the children of iniquity, so didst thou fall. And all the people repeating it wept over him.

2 Samuel 3:34 Cross References

2 Samuel 1:12

and they mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of the Lord and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

2 Samuel 3:33

And the king lamented for Abner, saying, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?

2 Samuel 3:35

Then all the people came to persuade 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 till the sun goes down!”

Job 24:14

The murderer rises in the dark, that he may kill the poor and needy; and in the night he is as a thief.

Ezekiel 32:16

This is a lamentation which shall be chanted; the daughters of the nations shall chant it; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they chant it, says the Lord God.”

Hosea 6:9

As robbers lie in wait for a man, so the priests are banded together; they murder on the way to Shechem, yea, they commit villainy.

Judges 16:21

And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with bronze fetters; and he ground at the mill in the prison.