¹³ On the other hand, if I had dealt treacherously against his life^[a] (and there is nothing hidden from the king), then you yourself would have stood aloof.”

¹⁹ The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered and said, ^(A)“As surely as you live, my lord the king, one cannot turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has said. It was your servant Joab who commanded me; ^(B)it was he who put all these words in the mouth of your servant. ²⁰ In order to change the course of things your servant Joab did this. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of ^(C)the angel of God to know all things that are on the earth.”

¹³ And ^(A)no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are ^(B)naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

^10 (A)when one told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ and thought he was bringing good news, ^(B)I seized him and killed him at Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news. ¹¹ How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now ^(C)require his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth?” ¹² And David commanded his young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet and hanged them beside the pool at Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it ^(D)in the tomb of Abner at Hebron.

¹⁵ Then ^(A)David called one of the young men and said, “Go, execute him.” And he struck him down so that he died. ¹⁶ And David said to him, ^(B)“Your blood be on your head, for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have killed ^(C)the Lord's anointed.’”