2 Samuel 3:33-35

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

³³The king lamented for Abner, saying,

‘Should Abner die as a fool dies?
³⁴Your hands were not bound,
your feet were not fettered;
as one falls before the wicked
you have fallen.’

And all the people wept over him again. ³⁵Then all the people came to persuade David to eat something while it was still day; but David swore, saying, ‘So may God do to me, and more, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun goes down!’

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