34. Your hands weren’t bound, and your feet weren’t put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell.” All the people wept again over him.
35. All the people came to urge David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, until the sun goes down.”
36. All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatever the king did pleased all the people.
37. So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner.
38. The king said to his servants, “Don’t you know that there a prince and a great man has fallen today in Israel?