2 Samuel 3:34
Your hands were free, your feet were not chained: like the downfall of a man before evil men, so was your fall. And the weeping of the people over him went on again.
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2 Samuel 3:34
Your hands were free, your feet were not chained: like the downfall of a man before evil men, so was your fall. And the weeping of the people over him went on again.
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2 Samuel 3:31
And David said to Joab and all the people who were with him, Go in grief and put haircloth about you, in sorrow for Abner. And King David went after the dead body.
2 Samuel 3:32
And they put Abner's body to rest in Hebron; and the king and all the people were weeping loudly by the resting-place of Abner's body.
2 Samuel 3:33
And the king made a song of grief for Abner and said, Was the death of Abner to be like the death of a foolish man?
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Judges 16:21
So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes; then they took him down to Gaza, and, chaining him with bands of brass, put him to work crushing grain in the prison-house.
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2 Samuel 1:17
Then David made this song of grief for Saul and Jonathan, his son:
2 Chronicles 35:25
And Jeremiah made a song of grief for Josiah; and to this day Josiah is named by all the makers of melody, men and women, in their songs of grief; they made it a rule in Israel; and the songs are recorded among the songs of grief.
Jeremiah 9:17
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Take thought and send for the weeping women, so that they may come; and send for the wise women, so that they may come:
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2 Samuel 3:27
And when Abner was back in Hebron, Joab took him on one side by the doorway of the town to have a word with him quietly, and there he gave him a wound in the stomach, causing his death in payment for the death of his brother Asahel.
2 Samuel 3:35
And the people came to make David take food, while it was still day, but David with an oath said, May God's punishment be on me if I take a taste of bread or any other thing till the sun has gone down!
2 Samuel 3:36
And all the people took note of it and were pleased: like everything the king did, it was pleasing to the people.
2 Samuel 3:37
So it was clear to Israel and to all the people on that day that the king was not responsible for the death of Abner, the son of Ner.
2 Samuel 3:38
And the king said to his servants, Do you not see that a chief and a great man has come to his end today in Israel?
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