2 Samuel 3:31
“¶ And Dauid said to Ioab, and to all the people that were with him, Rent your clothes, and girde you with sackecloth, and mourne before Abner. And king Dauid himselfe followed the biere.”
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2 Samuel 3:31 Context
29Let it rest on the head of Ioab, and on all his fathers house, & let there not faile from the house of Ioab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staffe, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread. 30So Ioab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slaine their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battell. 31¶ And Dauid said to Ioab, and to all the people that were with him, Rent your clothes, and girde you with sackecloth, and mourne before Abner. And king Dauid himselfe followed the biere. 32And they buried Abner in Hebron, and the king lift vp his voice, and wept at the graue of Abner; and all the people wept. 33And the king lamented ouer Abner, and said, Died Abner as a foole dieth?
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And David said to Joab, and to all the people that [were] with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David [himself] followed the bier.
- King James Version
Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, "Tear your clothes and gird on sackcloth and lament before Abner. And King David walked behind the bier."
- New American Standard Version (1995)