2 Samuel 3:37
35 Then all the people came and urged David to eat something while it was still day, but David took an oath, saying, “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun sets!”
36 All the people took note and were pleased. In fact, everything the king did pleased them.
So on that day all the troops and all Israel were convinced that the king had no part in the murder of Abner son of Ner.
38 Then the king said to his servants, “Do you not realize that a great prince has fallen today in Israel?
39 And I am weak this day, though anointed as king, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too fierce for me. May the LORD repay the evildoer according to his evil!”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So on that day all the troops and all Israel were convinced that the king had no part in the murder of Abner son of Ner.
- KJV
- For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.
- WEB
- So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner.
- ASV
- So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.
- DARBY
- And all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to put Abner the son of Ner to death.
- BLB
- For all the people and all Israel understood that on that day it was not from the king to kill Abner son of Ner.
- ÅB
- Og på den dag skjønte alt folket og hele Israel at det ikke var kongen som var opphavsmann til drapet på Abner, Ners sønn.
- OTB
- Så forsto hele folket og hele Israel den dagen at det ikke hadde vært kongens vilje å drepe Abner, sønn av Ner.
- B1930
- Og på den dag skjønte alt folket og hele Israel at det ikke var kongen som var ophavsmann til drapet på Abner, Ners sønn.