2 Samuel 4:1 · KJV
“And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.”
— 2 Samuel 4:1
2 Samuel 4 — Context
And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
2And Saul's son had two men {that were} captains of bands: the name of the one {was} Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin: {other: Heb. second}
3And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)
Cross References
Ezra 4:4
Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,
Isaiah 13:7
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: {be faint: or, fall down}
Jeremiah 6:24
We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, {and} pain, as of a woman in travail.
2 Samuel 17:2
And I will come upon him while he {is} weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that {are} with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:
Isaiah 35:3
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
Nehemiah 6:9
For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, {O God}, strengthen my hands.
Matthew 2:2-3
Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
2 Samuel 3:27
And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth {rib}, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother. {quietly: or, peaceably}