^{13 14} And say ye to Amasa, Art thou^◦ not my bone and my flesh? God do thus to me, and thus may He add, if thou be not commander^◦ of the army before me all the days instead of Joab.

⁹ So may God do to Abner, and so may He add unto him, if^▫ as^◦ Jehovah has promised to David, I do not even so to him,