24 However, about three months later it happened that it was told to Judah: “Taʹmar your daughter-in-law has played the harlot,+ and here she is also pregnant+ by her harlotry.”* At that Judah said: “BRING her out and let her be burned.”+

24 And the men of Israel themselves were hard pressed* on that day, and yet Saul put the people under the pledge of an oath,*+ saying: “Cursed is the man that eats bread before the evening and until I have taken vengeance+ upon my enemies!” And none of the people tasted bread.+

5 At this David’s anger grew very hot against the man,+ so that he said to Nathan: “As Jehovah is living,+ the man doing this deserves to die!*+

13 For the one that does not practice mercy will have [his] judgment without mercy.+ Mercy exults triumphantly over* judgment.