1 Kings 2:30

Holman Christian Standard Bible

³⁰ So Benaiah went to the tabernacle and said to Joab, “This is what the king says: ‘Come out!’”^(A)

But Joab said, “No, for I will die here.”

So Benaiah took a message back to the king, “This is what Joab said, and this is how he answered me.”