9:5 While I listened, he said to the others, 1 “Go through the city after him and strike people down; do no let your eye pity nor spare 2 anyone!
14:17 “Or suppose I were to bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through the land,’ and I were to kill both people and animals.
1 tn Heb “to these he said in my ears.”
2 tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.