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 3:39

3:39 Today I am weak, even though I am anointed as king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too much for me to bear! ²  May the Lord punish appropriately the one who has done this evil thing!” ³ 

2 Samuel 19:13

19:13 Say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my flesh and blood? ⁴  God will punish me severely, ⁵  if from this time on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”

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

² tn Heb “are hard from me.”

³ tn Heb “May the Lord repay the doer of the evil according to his evil” (NASB similar).

⁴ tn Heb “my bone and my flesh.”

⁵ tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”