31 Then the king said to him: “Do just as he said; strike him down and bury him and remove from me and from the house of my father the blood that Joʹab spilled without just cause.+ 32 Jehovah will bring his blood back on his own head, for without my father David’s knowledge, he struck down and killed with the sword two men more righteous and better than he was: Abʹner+ the son of Ner, the chief of the army of Israel,+ and A·maʹsa+ the son of Jeʹther, the chief of the army of Judah.+