2 Samuel 3:34

World English Bible (2000)

Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell." All the people wept again over him.

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  • Judg 16:21 : 21 The Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground at the mill in the prison.
  • 2 Sam 1:12 : 12 They mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
  • Job 24:14 : 14 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
  • Ps 107:10-11 : 10 Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron, 11 because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.
  • Hos 6:9 : 9 As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes.

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  • 2 Sam 3:30-33
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    30 So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

    31 David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. King David followed the bier.

    32 They buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.

    33 The king lamented for Abner, and said, "Should Abner die as a fool dies?

  • 2 Sam 3:36-38
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    36 All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatever the king did pleased all the people.

    37 So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner.

    38 The king said to his servants, "Don't you know that there a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?

  • 2 Sam 4:1
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    1 When [Ishbosheth], Saul's son, heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.

  • 1 Sam 26:14-16
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    14 and David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, "Don't you answer, Abner?" Then Abner answered, "Who are you who cries to the king?"

    15 David said to Abner, "Aren't you a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord, the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord.

    16 This thing isn't good that you have done. As Yahweh lives, you are worthy to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, Yahweh's anointed. Now see where the king's spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head."

  • 2 Sam 13:36
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    36 It happened, as soon as he had finished speaking, that behold, the king's sons came, and lifted up their voice, and wept. The king also and all his servants wept bitterly.

  • 2 Sam 3:23-26
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    23 When Joab and all the army who was with him had come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has sent him away, and he is gone in peace.

    24 Then Joab came to the king, and said, "What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away, and he is quite gone?

    25 You know Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do."

    26 When Joab had come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David didn't know it.

  • 2 Sam 19:1-2
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    1 It was told Joab, "Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom."

    2 The victory that day was turned into mourning to all the people; for the people heard it said that day, "The king grieves for his son."

  • 2 Sam 1:11-12
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    11 Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and likewise all the men who were with him.

    12 They mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.

  • 2 Sam 3:8-9
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    8 Then was Abner very angry for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, "Am I a dog's head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me this day with a fault concerning this woman!

    9 God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as Yahweh has sworn to David, I don't do even so to him;

  • 2 Sam 4:12
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    12 David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.

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    28 Afterward, when David heard it, he said, "I and my kingdom are guiltless before Yahweh forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.

  • 2 Sam 1:25
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    25 How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain on your high places.

  • 2 Sam 1:27
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    27 How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!"

  • 1 Kgs 2:32
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    32 Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn't know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

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    8 Yahweh has returned on you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned! Yahweh has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son! Behold, you are caught by your own mischief, because you are a man of blood!"

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  • 2 Sam 18:33
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    33 The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said, "My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!"

  • 1 Sam 30:4
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    4 Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

  • 2 Sam 2:31
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    31 But the servants of David had struck of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, [so that] three hundred sixty men died.

  • 2 Sam 19:4-5
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    4 The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, "My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!"

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    22 Abner said again to Asahel, "Turn aside from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then should I hold up my face to Joab your brother?"

    23 However he refused to turn aside. Therefore Abner with the back end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place. It happened, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.

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    57 As David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

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    17 David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son

  • 2 Sam 1:14-15
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    14 David said to him, "How were you not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy Yahweh's anointed?"

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  • 1 Kgs 2:5
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    5 "Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was about his waist, and in his shoes that were on his feet.

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    17 The battle was very severe that day: and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.

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    28 For all my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?"

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    21 Abner said to David, "I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your soul desires." David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.

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    17 Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, "In times past, you sought for David to be king over you.

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    31 that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When Yahweh has dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid."

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    4 David said to him, "How did it go? Please tell me." He answered, "The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen and are dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also."