2 Samuel 3:37-39 ▼

37 and all the people know, even all Israel, in that day, that it has not been from the king—to put Abner son of Ner to death.

38 And the king says to his servants, “Do you not know that a prince and a great one has fallen this day in Israel?

39 And today I [am] tender, and an anointed king: and these men, sons of Zeruiah, [are] too hard for me; YHWH repays to the doer of the evil according to his evil.”