55* Now at the moment that Saul saw David going out to meet the Phi·lisʹtine, he said to Abʹner+ the chief of the army: “Whose+ son is the boy,+ Abʹner?” To this Abʹner said: “By the life of your soul, O king, I do not know at all!”

30 At this the mother of the boy said: “As Jehovah is living+ and as your soul is living,+ I will not leave you.”+ Therefore he got up and went with her.*