37 For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been the king’s intent to kill Abner the son of Ner.
38 Then the king said to his servants, “Do you not know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?
39 And I am weak today, though anointed king; and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, aare too harsh for me. bThe Lord shall repay the evildoer according to his wickedness.”
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Introduction to 2 Samuel
See the Introduction to Samuel in the notes on First Samuel