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2 Samuel 3:35

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And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.

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  1. 2 Samuel 3:33

    And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?

  2. 2 Samuel 3:34

    Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.

  3. 2 Samuel 3:36

    And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.

  4. 2 Samuel 3:37

    For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.

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