²¹ And the king said to Joab, See now, I will do this thing: go then and Come back with the young man Absalom.

¹¹ Then she said, Let the king keep in mind the Lord your God, so that he who gives punishment for blood may be kept back from further destruction and that no one may send death on my son. And he said, By the living Lord, not a hair of your son's head will come to the earth.

³⁹ For, by the living Lord, the saviour of Israel, even if the sinner is Jonathan, my son, death will certainly be his fate. But not a man among all the people gave him any answer.

²⁶ And the king was very sad; but because of his oaths, and those who were with him at table, he would not say 'No' to her.