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Selected Verse: 2 Samuel 3:35 - King James

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2Sa 3:35 King James And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
To eat meat ... - Fasting was a sign of the deepest mourning Sa2 1:12. The fast lasted until the sun was set.
 
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12 And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.