2 Samuel 3:35-37

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³⁵ Then 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!” ³⁶ All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; just as everything the king did pleased all the people. ³⁷ So all the people and all Israel understood that day that the king had no part in the killing of Abner son of Ner.