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2 Samuel 3:38
2 Samuel 3:38 is verse 38 of 2 Samuel chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Then the king said to his servants, “Do you not realize that a great prince has fallen today in Israel?
King James Version
And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
World English Bible
The king said to his servants, “Don’t you know that a prince and a great man has fallen today in Israel?
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2 Samuel 3:36–39 · Berean Standard Bible
36 All the people took note and were pleased. In fact, everything the king did pleased them.
37 So on that day all the troops and all Israel were convinced that the king had no part in the murder of Abner son of Ner.
38 Then the king said to his servants, “Do you not realize that a great prince has fallen today in Israel?
39 And I am weak this day, though anointed as king, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too fierce for me. May the LORD repay the evildoer according to his evil!”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
2 Samuel 3:12Then Abner sent messengers in his place to say to David, “To whom does the land belong? Make your covenant with me, and surely my hand will be with you to bring all Israel over to you.”
2 Samuel 2:8Meanwhile, Abner son of Ner, the commander of Saul’s army, took Saul’s son Ish-bosheth, moved him to Mahanaim,
1 Samuel 14:50His wife’s name was Ahinoam daughter of Ahimaaz. The name of the commander of his army was Abner, the son of Saul’s uncle Ner.
1 Samuel 14:51Saul’s father Kish and Abner’s father Ner were sons of Abiel.
Job 32:9It is not only the old who are wise, or the elderly who understand justice.