6 And now do come, please; do curse+ this people for me, for they are mightier than I am. Perhaps I may be able to strike them and I may drive them out of the land; for I well know that the one whom you bless is a blessed one and the one whom you curse is cursed.”+

10 But the king said: “What do I have to do with YOU men,*+ YOU sons of Ze·ruʹiah?+ Thus let him call down evil,+ because Jehovah himself has said to him,+ ‘Call down evil upon David!’ So who* should say, ‘Why did you do that way?’”+