And, unto Amasa, shall ye say, Art not, thou, my bone and my flesh? So, let God do to me, and, so, let him add, if thou become not, prince of the army, before me continually, instead of Joab.
Then said David unto Abishai, Now, shall Sheba son of Bichri, do us more harm than Absolom,—thou, take the servants of thy lord, and pursue him, lest he have got him into fortified cities, and so have escaped our eye.