2 Samuel 3:31-39
1599 Geneva Bible
31 And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rent your clothes, and put on sackcloth, and mourn [a]before Abner: and King David himself followed the bier.
32 And when they had buried Abner in Hebron, the King lift up his voice, and wept beside the sepulcher of Abner, and all the people wept.
33 And the King lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner [b]as a fool dieth?
34 Thine hands were not bound, nor thy feet tied in fetters of brass: but as a man falleth before wicked men, so didst thou fall. And all the people wept again for him.
35 Afterward all the people came to cause David eat [c]meat while it was yet day, but David swore, saying, So do God to me and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else till the sun be down.
36 And all the people knew it, and it [d]pleased them: as whatsoever the King did, pleased all the people.
37 For all the people and all Israel understood that day, how that it was not the King’s deed that Abner the son of Ner was slain.
38 And the King said unto his servants, Know ye not, that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
39 And I am this day weak and newly anointed King: and these men the sons of Zeruiah be too [e]hard for me: the Lord reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.
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- 2 Samuel 3:31 Meaning before the corpse.
- 2 Samuel 3:33 He declareth that Abner died not as a wretch or vile person, but as a valiant man might do, being traitorously deceived by the wicked.
- 2 Samuel 3:35 According to their custom, which was to banquet at burials.
- 2 Samuel 3:36 It is expedient sometimes not only to conceive inward sorrow, but also that it may appear to others, to the intent that they may be satisfied.
- 2 Samuel 3:39 Or, cruel.
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