^{43 44} And the man^◦ of Israel answered the man^◦ of Judah, and said, I have^◦ ten shares^* in the king and also in David, I^◦ more than thou; and wherefore didst thou revile me, and was not my word the first for me to return my king? and the word of the man^◦ of Judah was more hardened than the word of the man^◦ of Israel.

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,