¹⁷ David went out to meet them and said to them, “If you have come to me in friendship to help me, my heart will be joined to you; but if to betray me to my adversaries, although there is no wrong in my hands, then may the God of our fathers see and rebuke you.” ¹⁸ Then ^(A)the Spirit clothed ^(B)Amasai, chief of the thirty, and he said,

Then David received them and made them officers of his troops.

³³ Of Zebulun 50,000 seasoned troops, ^(A)equipped for battle with all the weapons of war, to help David^[a] with ^(B)singleness of purpose.

³⁸ All these, men of war, arrayed in battle order, came to Hebron with ^(A)a whole heart to make David king over all Israel. Likewise, all the rest of Israel were of a ^(B)single mind to make David king.