2 Samuel 3:28-38

28 Afterwards, when David heard of it, he said, "I and my kingdom are forever innocent of the death of Avner the son of Ner.
29 Let it fall on the head of Yo'av and all his father's family. May Yo'av's family always have someone with a hemorrhage or tzara'at, or who has to walk with a cane, or who dies by the sword or who lacks food."
30 Thus Yo'av and Avishai his brother killed Avner, because he had killed their brother 'Asah'el during the battle in Giv'on.
31 But David said to Yo'av and all those with him, "Tear your clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourn over Avner." King David himself walked behind the body as it was carried.
32 They buried Avner at Hevron; the king wept aloud at Avner's grave, and all the people wept.
33 The king sang this lament over Avner: "Should Avner have died like a thug?
34 Your hands weren't tied, your feet weren't fettered; you fell like one who falls at the hands of criminals." Then all the people wept over him more than ever.
35 All the people came to David and tried to make him eat some bread while it was still daytime; but David swore, "May God bring terrible curses on me and worse ones yet if I taste bread or anything else until the sun goes down."
36 All the people took note of this, and it pleased them; whatever the king did pleased all the people.
37 So that day, all the people and all Isra'el understood that the king had had no part in the killing of Avner the son of Ner.
38 The king said to his servants, "You realize that a leader, a great man, has fallen today in Isra'el.
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