2 Samuel 3:34
Good News Translation
His hands were not tied, And his feet were not bound; He died like someone killed by criminals!" And the people wept for him again.

New Revised Standard Version
Your hands were not bound, your feet were not fettered; as one falls before the wicked you have fallen.” And all the people wept over him again.

Contemporary English Version
No one tied your hands or chained your feet, yet you died as a victim of murderers. Everyone started crying again.

New American Bible
Your hands were not bound with chains, nor your feet placed in fetters; As one falls before the wicked, you fell. And all the people continued to weep for him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Judges 16:21 Then the Philistines seized upon him, and forthwith pulled out his eyes, and led him bound in chains to Gaza, and shutting him up in prison made him grind.

Psalm 107:10,11 Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death: bound in want and in iron. . . .

wicked men [heb] children of iniquity

Job 24:14 The murderer riseth at the very break of day, he killeth the needy, and the poor man: but in the night he will be as a thief.

Hosea 6:9 And like the jaws of highway robbers, they conspire with the priests who murder in the way those that pass out of Sichem: for they have wrought wickedness.

wept

2 Samuel 1:12 And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the Lord, and for the house of Israel, because they were fallen by the sword.

Context
David Mourns for Abner
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.35And when all the people came to take meat with David, while it was yet broad day, David swore, saying: So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread or any thing else before sunset.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 3:33
And the king mourning and lamenting over Abner, said: Not as cowards are wont to die, hath Abner died.

2 Samuel 3:35
And when all the people came to take meat with David, while it was yet broad day, David swore, saying: So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread or any thing else before sunset.

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 3:33
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