2 Samuel 23:5

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 

2 Samuel 24:3

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?”

[23:5]  ¹ tn Heb “For not thus [is] my house with God?”

[23:5]  ² tn Heb “for all my deliverance and every desire, surely does he not make [it] grow?”