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


In Context

34 Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell.| All the people wept again over him.

35 All 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 goes down.|

36 All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatever the king did pleased all the people.

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

38 The king said to his servants, |Don't you know that there a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?

39 I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. May Yahweh reward the evildoer 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:37And 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.

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 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.