Sinai2 Samuel 3:35
American Standard Version
And all the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David sware, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or aught else, till the sun be down.
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2 Samuel 3:35 in other translations
All the people came to urge 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.”
2 Samuel 3:35 in context
- 33And the king lamented for Abner, and said, Should Abner die as a fool dieth?
- 34Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: As a man falleth before the children of iniquity, so didst thou fall. And all the people wept again over him.
- 35And all the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David sware, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or aught else, till the sun be down.
- 36And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatsoever 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 slay Abner the son of Ner.