23:5 My dynasty is approved by God, 1
for he has made a perpetual covenant with me,
arranged in all its particulars and secured.
He always delivers me,
and brings all I desire to fruition. 2
24:3 Joab replied to the king, “May the Lord your God make the army a hundred times larger right before the eyes of my lord the king! But why does my master the king want to do this?”
1 tn Heb “For not thus [is] my house with God?”
2 tn Heb “for all my deliverance and every desire, surely does he not make [it] grow?”