2 Samuel 16:8-10

Lexham English Bible

⁸ Yahweh has returned on you all the blood of the household of Saul whom you have supplanted as king,^[a] and Yahweh has given the kingship into the hand of Absalom your son. Look, you are in disaster for you are a man of blood.” ⁹ Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head.” ¹⁰ The king said, “What do we have in common,^[b] sons of Zeruiah? If^[c] he curses because Yahweh has said to him ‘Curse David,’ who can say, “Why have you done this?”