1 Chronicles 10:4

10:4 Saul told his armor bearer, “Draw your sword and stab me with it. Otherwise these uncircumcised people will come and torture me.” But his armor bearer refused to do it, because he was very afraid. So Saul took the sword and fell on it.

1 Chronicles 21:17

21:17 David said to God, “Was I not the one who decided to number the army? I am the one who sinned and committed this awful deed! As for these sheep – what have they done? O Lord my God, attack me and my family, but remove the plague from your people!”


tn Heb “so these uncircumcised ones might not come and abuse me.”

tn “and doing evil I did evil.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite form of the verb for emphasis.

tn Heb “let your hand be on me and on the house of my father.”

tn Heb “but on your people not for a plague.”