31 The king said to him, “(A)Do as he has spoken and fall upon him and bury him, (B)that you may remove from me and from my father’s house the blood which Joab shed without cause. 32 (C)The Lord will return his blood on his own head, (D)because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he and killed them with the sword, while my father David did not know it: (E)Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and (F)Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah. 33 (G)So shall their blood return on the head of Joab and on the head of his [a]descendants forever; but to David and his [b]descendants and his house and his throne, may there be peace from the Lord forever.”

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  1. 1 Kings 2:33 Lit seed
  2. 1 Kings 2:33 Lit seed