2சாமுவேல் 3:33-38
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And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?
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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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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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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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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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And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?