33-34 Then the king sang this tribute to Abner:

Can this be? Abner dead like a nameless bum?
You were a free man, free to go and do as you wished—
Yet you fell as a victim in a street brawl.

And all the people wept—a crescendo of crying!

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34     Your hands were not bound,
    your feet were not fettered.(A)
You fell as one falls before the wicked.”

And all the people wept over him again.

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