2 Samuel 3:31-35 ▼

31 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.| And King David followed the coffin.

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

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

34 Your hands were not bound in chains, your feet were not put into fetters. As a man falls before the ruthless, so you fell.| All the people wept again over him.

35 Then all the people came to persuade 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.|