2 Samuel 3:37-39

New American Standard Bible 1995

³⁷ 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. 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 I am ^(A)weak today, though anointed king; and these men ^(B)the sons of Zeruiah are too difficult for me. ^(C)May the Lord repay the evildoer according to his evil.”