2 Samuel 1:17

David’s Tribute to Saul and Jonathan

1:17 Then David chanted this lament over Saul and his son Jonathan.

2 Samuel 3:33-34

3:33 The king chanted the following lament for Abner:

“Should Abner have died like a fool?

3:34 Your hands ¹  were not bound,

and your feet were not put into irons.

You fell the way one falls before criminals.”

All the people ²  wept over him again.

[3:34]  ¹ tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew manuscripts and several ancient versions in reading “your hands,” rather than “your hand.”

[3:34]  ² tc 4QSam^a lacks the words “all the people.”