2 Samuel 3:34 - The Scriptures 1998

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.

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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.

2 Samuel 3:34 Cross References

2 Samuel 1:12

And they mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Sha’ul and for Yehonathan his son, and for the people of יהוה  and for the house of Yisra’ĕ

2 Samuel 3:33

And the sovereign sang a lament over Aḇ

2 Samuel 3:35

And all the people came to cause Dawiḏ

Job 24:14

The murderer rises at daylight, he slays the poor and needy, and in the night he is as a thief.

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.”

Hosea 6:9

“And as bands of robbers lie in wait for a man, so the company of priests murder on the way to Sheḵ

Judges 16:21

So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Azzah, and bound him with bronze shackles. And he became a grinder in the prison.