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33 And the King lamented ouer Abner, and sayde, Dyed Abner as a foole dyeth? 34 Thine handes were not bounde, nor thy feete tyed in fetters of brasse: but as a man falleth before wicked men, so diddest thou fall; all the people wept againe for him. 35 Afterwarde all the people came to cause Dauid eate meate while it was yet day, but Dauid sware, saying, So doe God to me and more also, if I taste bread, or ought els till the sunne be downe. 36 And all the people knewe it, and it pleased them: as whatsoeuer the King did, pleased all the people. 37 For all the people and all Israel vnderstoode that day, howe that it was not the Kings deede that Abner the sonne of Ner was slaine. 38 And the King said vnto his seruants, Know ye not, that there is a prince & a great man falle this day in Israel? 39 And I am this day weake and newly anoynted King: and these men the sonnes of Zeruiah be too harde for me: the Lorde rewarde the doer of euill according to his wickednesse. 2 Samuel 3:33-39, Geneva Bible of 1587. Public domain.
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