David Mourns Abner Publicly

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And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him: Rend your garments, and gird yourselves with sackcloths, and mourn before the funeral of Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.

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And when they had buried Abner in Hebron, king David lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner: and all the people also wept.

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And the king mourning and lamenting over Abner, said: Not as cowards are wont to die, hath Abner died.

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Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet laden with fetters: but as men fall before the children of iniquity, so didst thou fall. And all the people repeating it wept over him.

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And when all the people came to take meat with David, while it was yet broad day, David swore, saying: So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread or any thing else before sunset.

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And all the people heard, and they were pleased, and all that the king did seemed good in the sight of all the people.

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And all the people, and all Israel understood that day that it was not the king's doing, that Abner the son of Ner was slain.

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The king also said to his servants: Do you not know that a prince and a great man is slain this day in Israel?

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