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Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: As a man falleth before the children of iniquity, so didst thou fall. And all the people wept again over him.

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

Your hands were not bound... — This thought prepares the way for the solution; Abner had been treacherously murdered by wicked men.

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century
Anglican
19th Century

Thy hands were not bound. —The people were moved greatly by the sight of David’s sorrow, but still more by this brief elegy over A…

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

Your hands [were] not bound, nor your feet put into fetters ,
&c.] As malefactors are when they are taken up for any…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

Judgments are prepared for such scorners as Abner; but Joab, in what he did, acted wickedly. David laid Abner's murder deeply to heart and in many …

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