34. Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put into fetters: as a man falls before wicked men, so fell you. And all the people wept again over him.
35. And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David swore, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, till the sun be down.
36. And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.
37. For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.
38. And the king said unto his servants, Know you not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
39. And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me: the LORD shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.