2 Samuel 3:31-39 - David Mourns Abner
31 David told Joab and everyone with him: Show your sorrow by tearing your clothes and wearing sackcloth! Walk in front of Abner's body and cry! David walked behind the coffin on which Abner's body was being carried.
32 Abner was buried in Hebron. David and everyone else stood at the tomb and cried loudly. 33 The king sang a funeral song for Abner: Should Abner die like a godless fool? 34 Your hands were not bound. Your feet were not in fetters. You fell as one falls in front of wicked men. And all the people continued to cry for him.
35 David refused to eat anything the day of the funeral even though people tried to persuade him to eat. David vowed: May God strike me dead if I taste any food or anything else before the sun goes down. 36 All the people understood and approved of everything the king did. 37 That day all the people of Israel knew the king was not responsible for killing Ner's son Abner.
38 The king told his officers: Do you not know that today a leader, a great man, has fallen in Israel? 39 Today, even though I am the anointed king, these men, Zeruiah's sons, are too strong for me to control. May Jehovah repay these wicked men, as their evil deed deserves.