2 Samuel 14:19

14:19 The king said, “Did Joab put you up to all of this?” ¹  The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, there is no deviation to the right or to the left from all that my lord the king has said. For your servant Joab gave me instructions. He has put all these words in your servant’s mouth.

2 Samuel 14:1

David Permits Absalom to Return to Jerusalem

14:1 Now Joab son of Zeruiah realized that the king longed to see ²  Absalom.

1 Samuel 1:26

1:26 She said, “Just as surely as you are alive, my lord, I am the woman who previously stood here with you in order to pray to the Lord.

1 Samuel 17:55

17:55 ³ Now as Saul watched David going out to fight the Philistine, he asked Abner, the general in command of the army, “Whose son is this young man, Abner?” Abner replied, “As surely as you live, O king, I don’t know.”

1 Samuel 20:3

20:3 Taking an oath, David again ⁴  said, “Your father is very much aware of the fact ⁵  that I have found favor with you, and he has thought, ⁶  ‘Don’t let Jonathan know about this, or he will be upset.’ But as surely as the Lord lives and you live, there is about one step between me and death!”

1 Samuel 25:26

25:26 “Now, my lord, as surely as the Lord lives and as surely as you live, it is the Lord who has kept you from shedding blood and taking matters into your own hands. Now may your enemies and those who seek to harm my lord be like Nabal.

[14:19]  ¹ tn Heb “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?”

[14:1]  ² tn Heb “the heart of the king was upon.” The Syriac Peshitta adds the verb ’ethre’i (“was reconciled”).

[17:55]  ³ tc Most LXX mss lack 17:55–18:5.

[20:3]  ⁴ tc The LXX and the Syriac Peshitta lack the word “again.”

[20:3]  ⁵ tn The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.

[20:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “said,” that is, to himself. So also in v. 25.