¹³ And if I had put my life in jeopardy^[a]—and nothing is hidden from the king^(A)—you would have kept your distance from me.”

¹⁹ The king asked, “Isn’t the hand of Joab^(A) with you in all this?”

The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything my lord the king says. Yes, it was your servant Joab who instructed me to do this and who put all these words into the mouth of your servant. ²⁰ Your servant Joab did this to change the present situation. My lord has wisdom^(B) like that of an angel of God—he knows everything that happens in the land.^(C)”

¹³ Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight.^(A) Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

¹⁰ when someone told me, ‘Saul is dead,’ and thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and put him to death in Ziklag.^(A) That was the reward I gave him for his news! ¹¹ How much more—when wicked men have killed an innocent man in his own house and on his own bed—should I not now demand his blood^(B) from your hand and rid the earth of you!”

¹² So David gave an order to his men, and they killed them.^(C) They cut off their hands and feet and hung the bodies by the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-Bosheth and buried it in Abner’s tomb at Hebron.

¹⁵ Then David called one of his men and said, “Go, strike him down!”^(A) So he struck him down, and he died.^{(B) 16} For David had said to him, “Your blood be on your own head.^(C) Your own mouth testified against you when you said, ‘I killed the Lord’s anointed.’”