2 Samuel 3:36-38

Darby Translation

³⁶ And all the people remarked it, and it pleased them; as whatever the king did pleased all the people.

³⁷ And all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to put Abner the son of Ner to death.

³⁸ And the king said to his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?