Discovery Box2 Samuel 18:30 
Context18:30 The king said, “Turn aside and take your place here.” So he turned aside and waited.
2 Samuel 19:23
Context19:23 The king said to Shimei, “You won’t die.” The king vowed an oath 1 concerning this.
2 Samuel 20:20
Context20:20 Joab answered, “Get serious! 2 I don’t want to swallow up or destroy anything!
1 tn Heb “swore to him.”
2 tn Heb “Far be it, far be it from me.” The expression is clearly emphatic, as may be seen in part by the repetition. P. K. McCarter, however, understands it to be coarser than the translation adopted here. He renders it as “I’ll be damned if…” (II Samuel [AB], 426, 429), which (while it is not a literal translation) may not be too far removed from the way a soldier might have expressed himself.
