David Mourns Abner Publicly

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David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. King David followed the bier.

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They buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.

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The king lamented for Abner, and said, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?

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Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell.” All the people wept again over him.

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All the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, until the sun goes down.”

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All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatever the king did pleased all the people.

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So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner.

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The king said to his servants, “Don’t you know that there a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?

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