31David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, Tear your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. King David followed the bier.
32They buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.
33The king lamented for Abner, and said, Should Abner die as a fool dies?
34Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put into fetters: As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so did you fall. All the people wept again over him.
35All the people came to cause 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 be down.
36All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatever the king did pleased all the people.
37So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner.
