2 Samuel 3:33 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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.

2 Samuel 3:33 Cross References

2 Chronicles 35:25

And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations, unto this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

2 Samuel 1:17

And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:

Jeremiah 17:11

As the partridge that gathereth young which she hath not brought forth, so is he that getteth riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

Proverbs 18:7

A fool's mouth is his destruction, And his lips are the snare of his soul.

2 Samuel 3:34

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.

Ezekiel 32:16

This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament; the daughters of the nations shall lament therewith: for Egypt, and for all her multitude, shall they lament therewith, saith the Lord GOD