Joab replied, "As surely as God lives, if you had not said this, it would have been morning before the people would have abandoned pursuit of their brothers!"

The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David and his men picked them up.

And, thus, said Shimei, when he cursed, - Out! Out! thou man of bloodshed, and man of the Abandoned One!

If I had acted at risk of my own life -- and nothing is hidden from the king! -- you would have abandoned me."

Now, in that place, there happened to be an abandoned man, whose name, was Sheba son of Bichri, a man of Benjamin, - so he blew a horn, and said - We have no share in David, Nor inheritance have we in the son of Jesse, Every man to his home, O Israel!

So all of the other Israeli soldiers abandoned David to follow Bichri's son Sheba, while the army of Judah remained with the king all the way from the Jordan River to Jerusalem.

because I have kept the LORD's way I haven't willfully abandoned my God

But, as for the abandoned, like thorns to be tossed away are they all, - For, not with the hand, can they be taken;