32 The Lord will repay(A) him for the blood he shed,(B) because without my father David knowing it he attacked two men and killed them with the sword. Both of them—Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa(C) son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army—were better(D) men and more upright than he.

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32 And the Lord shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.

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32 So the Lord (A)will return his [a]blood on his head, because he struck down two men more righteous (B)and better than he, and killed them with the sword—(C)Abner the son of Ner, the commander of the army of Israel, and (D)Amasa the son of Jether, the commander of the army of Judah—though my father David did not know it.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 2:32 Or bloodshed

10 But may you have mercy(A) on me, Lord;
    raise me up,(B) that I may repay(C) them.

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10 But thou, O Lord, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.

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10 But You, O Lord, be merciful to me, and raise me up,
That I may repay them.

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Every morning(A) I will put to silence
    all the wicked(B) in the land;
I will cut off every evildoer(C)
    from the city of the Lord.(D)

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I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the Lord.

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(A)Early I will destroy all the wicked of the land,
That I may cut off all the evildoers (B)from the city of the Lord.

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