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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 (3:31) And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept (3:32) And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth? (3:33) Thy hands [were] not bound. nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, [so] fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him (3:34) And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down (3:35) And all the people took notice [of it], and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people (3:36) For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner (3:37) And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel? (3:38) And I [am] this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah [be] too hard for me: the Lord shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness
(3:39)
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