2 Samuel 3:31-39
David Mourns for Abner

31 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.

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32 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.

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33 And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?

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34 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.

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35 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.

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36 And all the people took notice [of it], and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.

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37 For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.

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38 And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?

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39 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.

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