and 16,000 people.

So Joab visited the king at his home. He said, “Today you have embarrassed all your servants who have saved your life this day, as well as the lives of your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your concubines.

I have refused to touch such things; they are like loathsome food to me.

so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life.

“How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?

so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare.

He draws near to the place of corruption, and his life to the messengers of death.

They die in their youth, and their life ends among the male cultic prostitutes.

By David. O Lord, I come before you in prayer.

They experience his favor; their descendants inherit the land.

by saving their lives from death and sustaining them during times of famine.

We wait for the Lord; he is our deliverer and shield.

Then I will rejoice in the Lord and be happy because of his deliverance.

They repay me evil for the good I have done; I am overwhelmed with sorrow.

(the ransom price for a human life is too high, and people go to their final destiny),

They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.

When worries threaten to overwhelm me, your soothing touch makes me happy.

The shackles hurt his feet; his neck was placed in an iron collar,

giving him authority to imprison his officials and to teach his advisers.

He granted their request, then struck them with a disease.