2 Samuel 3:37-39

Revised Geneva Translation

³⁷ For all the people and all Israel understood on that day how that it was not the king’s doing that Abner, the son of Ner, had been killed.

³⁸ And the king said to his servants, “Do you not know that there is a prince and a great man who has fallen this day in Israel?

³⁹ “And I, the anointed king, am weak this day. And these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too hard for me. May the LORD reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.”