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33 The king chanted the following lament for Abner:

“Should Abner have died like a fool?
34 Your hands[a] were not bound,
and your feet were not put into irons.
You fell the way one falls before criminals.”

All the people[b] wept over him again.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 3:34 tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew manuscripts and several ancient versions in reading “your hands,” rather than “your hand.”
  2. 2 Samuel 3:34 tc 4QSama lacks the words “all the people.”