2 Samuel 14:11

14:11 She replied, “In that case, ¹  let the king invoke the name of ²  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 ³  will fall to the ground.”

2 Samuel 15:14

15:14 So David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem, ⁴  “Come on! ⁵  Let’s escape! ⁶  Otherwise no one will be delivered from Absalom! Go immediately, or else he will quickly overtake us and bring ⁷  disaster on us and kill the city’s residents with the sword.” ⁸ 

2 Samuel 21:2

21:2 So the king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke with them. (Now the Gibeonites were not descendants of Israel; they were a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had made a promise to ⁹  them, but Saul tried to kill them because of his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.)

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¹ 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.

² tn Heb “let the king remember.”

³ tn Heb “of your son.”

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⁵ tn Heb “Arise!”

⁶ tn Heb “let’s flee.”

⁷ tn Heb “thrust.”

⁸ tn Heb “and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”

⁹ tn Heb “swore an oath to.”