I will be a father to him, and he will be a son to Me. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with a human rod and with blows from others.

We will certainly die and be like water poured out on the ground, which can’t be recovered. But God would not take away a life; He would devise plans so that the one banished from Him does not remain banished.

Absalom said to him, “Look, your claims are good and right, but the king does not have anyone to listen to you.”

All the men of Judah responded to the men of Israel, “Because the king is our relative. Why does this make you angry? Have we ever eaten anything of the king’s or been honored at all?”

They look, but there is no one to save them—
they look to the Lord, but He does not answer them.

Joab replied to the king, “May the Lord your God multiply the troops 100 times more than they are—while my lord the king looks on! But why does my lord the king want to do this?”