2 Samuel 23:17

23:17 and said, “O Lord, I will not do this! It is equivalent to the blood of the men who risked their lives by going.” So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three elite warriors.

2 Samuel 14:11

14:11 She replied, “In that case, let the king invoke the name of the Lord your God so that the avenger of blood may not kill! Then they will not destroy my son!” He replied, “As surely as the Lord lives, not a single hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”


tn Heb “Far be it to me, O Lord, from doing this.”

tn Heb “[Is it not] the blood of the men who were going with their lives?”

tn Heb “These things the three warriors did.”

tn The words “in that case” are not in the Hebrew text, but may be inferred from the context. They are supplied in the translation for the sake of clarification.

tn Heb “let the king remember.”

tn Heb “of your son.”