³⁴ Your hands were not tied and your feet were not in contact with bronze fetters. You have fallen as one who falls before sons of wickedness.” Then all the people wept over him again.^{[a] 35} Then all the people came to give David food. Still on that day, David swore, “May God punish me^[b] if I taste food or anything before the sun goes down.” ³⁶ All the people noticed, and it was good in their eyes, as everything that the king did was good in the eyes of all the people.