and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made y’all’s yoke heavy, but I will increase y’all’s yoke. My father disciplined y’all with whips, but I will discipline y’all with scorpions.”
But they didn’t listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than the nations did whom YHWH destroyed before the children of Israel.
Saul commanded his servants, “Y’all speak with David secretly, and say, ‘Look, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore be the king’s son-in-law.’”