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2 Samuel 3:35

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All the people came to urge David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, until the sun goes down.”

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2 Samuel 3:35 in other translations

And all the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David sware, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or aught else, till the sun be down.

2 Samuel 3:35 · American Standard Version

2 Samuel 3:35 in context

  1. 33The king lamented for Abner, and said, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?
  2. 34Your hands weren’t bound, and your feet weren’t put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell.”
    All the people wept again over him.
  3. 35All the people came to urge David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, until the sun goes down.”
  4. 36All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatever the king did pleased all the people.
  5. 37So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner.