For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been the king's intent to kill Abner the son of Ner.
2 Samuel 3:37
Surrounding context
3:36 Now all the people took note of it, and it pleased them, since whatever the king did pleased all the people.
3:37 For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been the king's intent to kill Abner the son of Ner.
3:38 Then the king said to his servants, "Do you not know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?