2 Samuel 3:34

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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.

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  • Judg 16:21 : 21 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
  • 2 Sam 1:12 : 12 And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
  • Job 24:14 : 14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
  • Ps 107:10-11 : 10 ¶ Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, [being] bound in affliction and iron; 11 Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
  • Hos 6:9 : 9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, [so] the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

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    36And all the people took notice [of it], and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.

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