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37 So all the people and all Israel knew that day that it had not been the will of the king to put Abner the son of Ner to death. 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 Thus I am (A)weak today, though anointed king; and these men (B)the sons of Zeruiah are too difficult for me. (C)May Yahweh repay the evildoer according to his evil.”

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