¹⁵ It was they who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing all its banks,^(A) and they put to flight everyone living in the valleys, to the east and to the west.

¹⁶ Other Benjamites^(B) and some men from Judah also came to David in his stronghold. ¹⁷ David went out to meet them and said to them, “If you have come to me in peace to help me, I am ready for you to join me. But if you have come to betray me to my enemies when my hands are free from violence, may the God of our ancestors see it and judge you.”