and Joab said to the man who told him, And behold, you have seen. And why did you not strike him to the earth there and call on me to give you ten silverlings and a girdle?
And Abner said yet again to Asahel, Turn aside yourself from after me. Why should I strike you to the ground? And how shall I lift up my face to your brother Joab?
And He said to me, Son of man, these bones are all the house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is perished; we are cut off to ourselves.