2 Samuel 3:33 - The Scriptures 1998

³³ And the sovereign sang a lament over Aḇ

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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 Samuel 1:17

Then Dawiḏ

2 Samuel 3:34

“Your hands were not bound nor your feet put into shackles. As one falls before sons of evil, so you fell.” And all the people wept over him again.

2 Chronicles 35:25

And Yirmeyahu lamented for Yoshiyahu. And to this day all the singing men and the singing women speak of Yoshiyahu in their lamentations, and made it a law in Yisra’ĕ

Proverbs 18:7

A fool’s mouth is his ruin, And his lips are the snare of his life.

Jeremiah 17:11

“As a partridge that broods but does not hatch, so is he who gets riches, but not by right. It leaves him in the midst of his days, and at his end he is a fool.”

Ezekiel 32:16

‘This is the lamentation, and they shall lament her, the daughters of the nations lament her. Over Mitsrayim and over all her crowd they shall lament her,’ declares the Master יהוה.”