2 Samuel 3:37
“For all the people, and all Israel vnderstood that day, that it was not of the King to slay Abner the sonne of Ner.”
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2 Samuel 3:37 Context
35And when all the people came to cause Dauid to eate meate while it was yet day, Dauid sware, saying, So doe God to mee, and more also, if I taste bread or ought else, till the Sunne be downe. 36And all the people tooke notice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoeuer the King did, pleased all the people. 37For all the people, and all Israel vnderstood that day, that it was not of the King to slay Abner the sonne of Ner. 38And the King said vnto his seruants, Knowe yee not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel? 39And I am this day weake, though anointed King, and these men the sonnes of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the Lord shall reward the doer of euill, according to his wickednesse.
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For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.
- King James Version
So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been {the will} of the king to put Abner the son of Ner to death.
- New American Standard Version (1995)