¹⁷ Then your servant-woman said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king be a resting place, for as ^(A)the angel of God, so is my lord the king to listen with discernment through the good and evil. And may Yahweh your God be with you.’”

²⁰ in order to change the appearance of things your servant Joab has done this thing. But my lord is wise, ^(A)like the wisdom of the angel of God, to know all that is in the earth.”