37And 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.


In Context

34 Thy hands were not bound, Nor thy feet put into fetters; As a man falleth before wicked men, Fellest thou! And all the people wept again over him.

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

36 And all the people remarked it, and it pleased them; as whatever the king did pleased all the people.

37 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.

38 And the king said to his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?

39 And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too hard for me: Jehovah reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness!

2 Samuel 3:37 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:37So on that day all the people and all Israel knew that the king had no part in the murder of Abner son of Ner.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:37For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:37And all the people, and all Israel understood that day that it was not the king's doing, that Abner the son of Ner was slain.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:37So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:37So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:37For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:37So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:37and all the people know, even all Israel, in that day, that it hath not been from the king — to put to death Abner son of Ner.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:37For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.