2 Sam 3:34

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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.

Judg 16:21; Ps 107:10; Ps 107:11

wicked men. Heb. children of iniquity.

Job 24:14; Hos 6:9

wept.

2Sam 1:12