35 Afterward all the people came to cause David eat [a]meat while it was yet day, but David swore, saying, So do God to me and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else till the sun be down.

36 And all the people knew it, and it [b]pleased them: as whatsoever the King did, pleased all the people.

37 For all the people and all Israel understood that day, how that it was not the King’s deed that Abner the son of Ner was slain.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 3:35 According to their custom, which was to banquet at burials.
  2. 2 Samuel 3:36 It is expedient sometimes not only to conceive inward sorrow, but also that it may appear to others, to the intent that they may be satisfied.

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