2 Samuel 3:38 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³⁸ And the king said to his servants, “Do you not know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁸ And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁸ King David said to his servants, Do you not know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁸ And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?

Common English Bible

³⁸ The king told his soldiers, “Don’t you know that a prince and a great man in Israel has fallen today?

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁸ The king also said to his servants: "Could you be ignorant that a leader and a very great man has fallen today in Israel?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁸ The king also said to his servants: Do you not know that a prince and great man is slain this day in Israel?

2 Samuel 3:38 Cross References

2 Samuel 2:8

Now Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, had taken Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;

2 Samuel 3:12

And Abner sent messengers to David at Hebron, saying, “To whom does the land belong? Make your covenant with me, and behold, my hand shall be with you to bring over all Israel to you.”

2 Samuel 3:37

So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been the king's will to slay Abner the son of Ner.

2 Samuel 3:39

And I am this day weak, though anointed king; these men the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. The Lord requite the evildoer according to his wickedness!”

Job 32:9

It is not the old that are wise, nor the aged that understand what is right.

1 Samuel 26:15

And David said to Abner, “Are you not a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord.