²⁹ May his blood^(A) fall on the head of Joab and on his whole family!^(B) May Joab’s family never be without someone who has a running sore^(C) or leprosy^[a] or who leans on a crutch or who falls by the sword or who lacks food.”

¹⁹ If any of them go outside your house into the street, their blood will be on their own heads;^(A) we will not be responsible. As for those who are in the house with you, their blood will be on our head^(B) if a hand is laid on them.

³² The Lord will repay^(A) him for the blood he shed,^(B) because without my father David knowing it he attacked two men and killed them with the sword. Both of them—Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa^(C) son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army—were better^(D) men and more upright than he.

³⁷ The day you leave and cross the Kidron Valley,^(A) you can be sure you will die; your blood will be on your own head.”^(B)

²⁵ All the people answered, “His blood is on us and on our children!”^(A)