¹⁷ The elders of his household stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he refused,^(A) and he would not eat any food with them.^(B)

³⁵ Then they all came and urged David to eat something while it was still day; but David took an oath, saying, “May God deal with me, be it ever so severely,^(A) if I taste bread^(B) or anything else before the sun sets!”

²³ He refused^(A) and said, “I will not eat.”

But his men joined the woman in urging him, and he listened to them. He got up from the ground and sat on the couch.