2 Samuel 3:37 So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been the king's will to slay Abner the son of Ner. | Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C)

2 Samuel 3:37 RSV-C

So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been the king's will to slay Abner the son of Ner.

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