2 Samuel 3:34
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| Overview - 2 Samuel 3 | |
| 1 | During the war David still waxes stronger. |
| 2 | Six sons are born to him in Hebron. |
| 6 | Abner, displeased with Ish-bosheth, |
| 7 | revolts to David. |
| 13 | David requires as a condition to bring him his wife Michal. |
| 17 | Abner, having communed with the Israelites, is feasted by David, and dismissed. |
| 22 | Joab returning from battle, is displeased with the king, and kills Abner. |
| 28 | David curses Joab; |
| 31 | and mourns for Abner. |
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2 Samuel 3:34 (King James Version)
Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.
- hands
- The hand of malefactors were usually secured with cords, and their feet with fetters; a custom to which David affectingly alludes in his lamentation over the dust of Abner. Thy hands, O Abner, were not bound, as found to be a malefactor, nor thy feet put in fetters; thou was treated with honour by him whose business it was to judge thee, and thy attachment to the house of Saul was esteemed rather generous than culpable: as the best of men may fall, so thou fellest by the sword of treachery, not of justice.
- Judges 16:21 ; Psalms 107:10 Psalms 107:11
- wicked men
- Hebrew children of iniquity.
- Job 24:14 ; Hosea 6:9
- wept
- 1:12