If only I were predisposed to keep your statutes!

Make the path for your feet level, so that all your ways may be established.

The soldiers told him what had been promised, saying, “This is what will be done for the man who can strike him down.”

For it is pleasing if you keep these sayings within you, and they are ready on your lips.

The judge may sentence him to forty blows, but no more. If he is struck with more than these, you might view your fellow Israelite with contempt.

The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who is coming up? He does so to defy Israel. But the king will make the man who can strike him down very wealthy! He will give him his daughter in marriage, and he will make his father’s house exempt from tax obligations in Israel.”