2 Samuel 3:33
Good News Translation
David sang this lament for Abner: "Why did Abner have to die like a fool?

New Revised Standard Version
The king lamented for Abner, saying, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?

Contemporary English Version
Then the king sang a funeral song about Abner: Abner, why should you have died like an outlaw?

New American Bible
And the king sang this lament over Abner: Should Abner have died like a fool?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the king mourning and lamenting over Abner, said: Not as cowards are wont to die, hath Abner died.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

2 Samuel 13:12,13,28,29 She answered him: Do not so, my brother, do not force me: for no such thing must be done in Israel. Do not thou this folly. . . .

Proverbs 18:7 The mouth of a fool is his destruction: and his lips are the ruin of his soul.

Ecclesiastes 2:15,16 And I said in my heart: If the death of the fool and mine shall be one, what doth it avail me, that I have applied myself more to the study of wisdom? And speaking with my own mind, I perceived that this also was vanity. . . .

Jeremiah 17:11 As the partridge hath hatched eggs which she did not lay: so is he that hath gathered riches, and not by right: in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and in his latter end he shall be a fool.

Luke 12:19,20 And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years. Take thy rest: eat, drink, make good cheer. . . .

Context
David Mourns for Abner
32And when they had buried Abner in Hebron, king David lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner: and all the people also wept. 33And the king mourning and lamenting over Abner, said: Not as cowards are wont to die, hath Abner died.34Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet laden with fetters: but as men fall before the children of iniquity, so didst thou fall. And all the people repeating it wept over him.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 1:17
And David made this kind of lamentation over Saul, and over Jonathan his son.

2 Samuel 3:34
Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet laden with fetters: but as men fall before the children of iniquity, so didst thou fall. And all the people repeating it wept over him.

2 Chronicles 35:25
Particularly Jeremias: whose lamentations for Josias all the singing men and singing women repeat unto this day, and it became like a law in Israel: Behold it is found written in the Lamentations.

Ezekiel 32:16
This is the lamentation, and they shall lament therewith: the daughters of the nations shall lament therewith for Egypt, and for the multitude thereof they shall lament therewith, saith the Lord God.

2 Samuel 3:32
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