* 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.
# Jud 16:21; Ps 107:10,11|
* wicked men. Heb. children of iniquity.
# Job 24:14; Ho 6:9|
* wept.
# 1:12|
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