2 Samuel 3:37-39

Revised Standard Version

³⁷ So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been the king’s will to slay Abner the son of Ner. ³⁸ And 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 this day weak, though anointed king; these men the sons of Zeru′iah are too hard for me. The Lord requite the evildoer according to his wickedness!”