2 Samuel 3:35

3:35 Then all the people came and encouraged David to eat food while it was still day. But David took an oath saying, “God will punish me severely ¹  if I taste bread or anything whatsoever before the sun sets!”

2 Samuel 12:21

12:21 His servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? While ²  the child was still alive, you fasted and wept. Once the child was dead you got up and ate food!”

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¹ tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”

² tc For the MT בַּעֲבוּר (ba’avur, “for the sake of”) we should probably read בְּעוֹד (bÿ’od, “while”). See the Lucianic Greek recension, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Targum.