35. Then all the soldiers came to urge David to eat something while it was still day, but David swore, "May God deal harshly with me and worse still if I eat bread or anything else before the sun goes down."
36. All the troops took notice of this and were pleased by it. Indeed, everything that the king did pleased them.
37. So on that day all the troops and all Israel knew that it wasn’t the king’s idea to kill Abner, Ner’s son.
38. The king told his soldiers, "Don’t you know that a prince and a great man in Israel has fallen today?