2 Samuel 3:37-39

Lexham English Bible

³⁷ Then all the people and all of Israel realized on that day that the king had not desired^[a] to kill Abner the son of Ner. ³⁸ Then the king said to his servants, “Did you not realize that a prince and a great man has fallen today in Israel? ³⁹ I am weak today even though anointed king, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are crueler than I am. May Yahweh pay them back for doing wickedness according to their own wickedness.”