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The king lamented for Abner, and said, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?

2 Samuel 3:33 · WEB

This verse in other languages

ગુજરાતી2 શમુએલ ૩:૩૩
રાજાએ આબ્નેરને માટે વિલાપ કરીને ગાયું કે, “જેમ મૂર્ખ મરે છે તેમ શું આબ્નેર માર્યો જાય?
हिन्दी2 शमूएल ३:३३
तब दाऊद ने अब्नेर के विषय यह विलापगीत बनाया, “क्या उचित था कि अब्नेर मूर्ख के समान मरे?

In context

31David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn in front of Abner.” King David followed the bier.

32They buried Abner in Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice and wept at Abner’s grave; and all the people wept.

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

34Your hands weren’t bound, and your feet weren’t put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell.” All the people wept again over him.

35All the people came to urge David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread or anything else, until the sun goes down.”

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