33The king sang this lament for Abner: "Should Abner have died as the lawless die?


In Context

30 (Joab and his brother Abishai murdered Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.)

31 Then David said to Joab and all the people with him, "Tear your clothes and put on sackcloth and walk in mourning in front of Abner." King David himself walked behind the bier.

32 They buried Abner in Hebron, and the king wept aloud at Abner's tomb. All the people wept also.

33 The king sang this lament for Abner: "Should Abner have died as the lawless die?

34 Your hands were not bound, your feet were not fettered. You fell as one falls before wicked men." And all the people wept over him again.

35 Then they all came and urged David to eat something while it was still day; but David took an oath, saying, "May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun sets!"

2nd Samuel 3:33 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:33And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:33And the king mourning and lamenting over Abner, said: Not as cowards are wont to die, hath Abner died.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:33And the king lamented for Abner, and said, Should Abner die as a fool dieth?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:33And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Should Abner die as a fool dieth?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:33And the king lamented for Abner, and said, Should Abner die as a fool dieth?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:33And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:33The king lamented for Abner, and said, |Should Abner die as a fool dies?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:33and the king lamenteth for Abner, and saith: — 'As the death of a fool doth Abner die?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:33And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dies?