2 Samuel 3:38-39

Common English Bible

³⁸ The king told his soldiers, “Don’t you know that a prince and a great man in Israel has fallen today? ³⁹ And today, though I am the anointed king, I am weak. These men, Zeruiah’s sons, are too strong for me.^[a] May the Lord repay the one who does evil according to the evil they did!”