17 With that the king said to the runners+ stationed about him: “Turn and put to death the priests of Jehovah, because their hand also is with David and because they knew that he was a runaway and they did not disclose it to my ear!”+ And the servants of the king did not want to thrust out their hand to assault the priests of Jehovah.+

14 Then David said to him: “How was it that you did not fear+ to thrust your hand out to bring the anointed*+ of Jehovah to ruin?”