2 Samuel 3:33-38

33and the king sang a lament for Abner: Should Abner die as a fool dies?

34Your hands were not bound, your feet not placed in bronze shackles. You fell like one who falls victim to criminals. And all the people wept over him even more.

35Then they came to urge David to eat food while it was still day, but David took an oath: “May God punish me and do so severely if I taste bread or anything else before sunset!”

36All the people took note of this, and it pleased them. In fact, everything the king did pleased them.

37On that day all the troops and all Israel were convinced that the king had no part in the killing of Abner son of Ner.

38Then the king said to his soldiers, “You must know that a great leader has fallen in Israel today.