^{33 Ref} The king lamented for Abner, and said, Should Abner die as a fool dies?

^{34 Ref} Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put into fetters: As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so did you fall. All the people wept again over him.

^{35 Ref} All the people came to cause 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 be down.

^{36 Ref} 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 Ref} The king said to his servants, "Don't you know that there a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?