2 Samuel 3:34

La Biblia Reina-Valera

Samuel 3:34"> 34 Tus manos no estaban atadas, ni tus pies ligados con grillos: Caíste como los que caen delante de malos hombres. Y todo el pueblo volvió á llorar sobre él.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Tus manos no estaban atadas, ni tus pies puestos en grillos; como el que cae delante de los malvados, has caído. Y todo el pueblo volvió a llorar por él.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Tus manos no estaban atadas, ni tus pies ligados con grillos: Caíste como los que caen delante de malos hombres, así caíste. Y todo el pueblo volvió a llorar sobre él.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Tus manos no estaban atadas, ni tus pies ligados con grillos. Caíste como los que caen delante de malos hombres. Y todo el pueblo volvió a llorar sobre él.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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: Heb. children of iniquity, Job 24:14, Hosea 6:9

wept: 2 Samuel 1:12

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 11:21 - Thy servant 2 Samuel 14:19 - of Joab Ezekiel 32:16 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thy hands [were] not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters,.... As malefactors are when they are taken up for any crime, and especially when proved upon them, and condemned for it, and brought forth to be executed. This was not his case, and had he been aware of the design against him, as his hands and feet were at liberty, he might have defended himself; or if he found he had too many to deal with, might have made use of his feet and fled:

as a man falleth before wicked men, [so] fellest thou; as a man being before bloodthirsty and deceitful men, falls before them, through treachery and deceit, privately and unawares, so fell Abner before Joab and Abishai; this David said in the presence of Joab, and before all the people, to declare the plain fact how it was, to express his detestation of it, and to show he had no hand in it; and Joab must be an hardened creature to stand at the grave of Abner, and hear all this, and not be affected with it:

and all the people wept again over him; over Abner, being laid in his grave; they had wept before, but hearing this funeral oration delivered by the king in such moving language, and in such a mournful tone, it drew tears afresh from them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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