2 Samuel 3:33

New English Translation

The king chanted the following lament for Abner: “Should Abner have died like a fool?

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:17

Then David chanted this lament over Saul and his son Jonathan.

2 Samuel 3:34

Your hands were not bound, and your feet were not put into irons. You fell the way one falls before criminals.” All the people wept over him again.

2 Chronicles 35:25

Jeremiah composed laments for Josiah which all the male and female singers use to mourn Josiah to this very day. It has become customary in Israel to sing these; they are recorded in the Book of Laments.

Proverbs 18:7

The mouth of a fool is his ruin, and his lips are a snare for his life.

Jeremiah 17:11

The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool.”

Ezekiel 32:16

This is a lament; they will chant it. The daughters of the nations will chant it. They will chant it over Egypt and over all her hordes, declares the sovereign Lord.”