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35 And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David swore, saying, “So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread or aught else till the sun be down.”

36 And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them, as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.

37 For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not because of the king that Abner the son of Ner was slain.

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