2 Samuel 16:8-10

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁸ The Lord has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul in whose place you became king, and the Lord has handed the kingdom over to your son Absalom. Look, you are in trouble because you’re a murderer!”

⁹ Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog^(A) curse my lord the king?^(B) Let me go over and cut his head off!”

¹⁰ The king replied, “Sons of Zeruiah, do we agree on anything?^(C) He curses^(D) me this way because the Lord^[a] told him, ‘Curse David!’ Therefore, who can say, ‘Why did you do that?’”