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Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, "^(C1)Tear your clothes and put on sackcloth, and mourn before Abner." And King David walked behind the bier.

And they buried Abner in Hebron; and the king raised his voice and wept at ^(C1)the grave of Abner, and all the people wept.

And ^(C1)the king sang a song of mourning for Abner and said, "Should Abner die as a fool dies?

-"Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put in bronze shackles; As one falls before the ^(F1)wicked, you have fallen." And all the people wept over him again.

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Then all the people came ^(C1)to provide ^(F1)food for David in his distress while it was still day; but David vowed, saying, "^(C2)May God do so to me, and more so, if I taste bread or anything else ^(C3)before the sun goes down."

Now all the people took note of David's vow, and it ^(F1)pleased them, just as everything that the king did ^(F2)pleased all the people.

So all the people and all Israel understood on that day that it had not been the desire of the king to put Abner the son of Ner to death.

Then the king said to his servants, "Do you not know that a leader and a great man has fallen in Israel this day?

"And I am ^(C1)weak today, though anointed king; and these men, ^(C2)the sons of Zeruiah, are too difficult for me. ^(C3)May the LORD repay the evildoer in proportion to his evil."