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For all the people and all Israelunderstood that day that it was not of the king to slayAbner the son of Ner.
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And the kingsaid unto his servants,Know ye not that there is a prince and a great manfallen this day in Israel?
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And I am this dayweak,[a] though anointedking; and these men the sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the LORD shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.