46 This day Jehovah will surrender you into my hand,+ and I shall certainly strike you down and remove your head off you; and I shall certainly give the carcasses of the camp of the Phi·lisʹtines* this day to the fowls of the heavens and to the wild beasts of the earth;+ and people of all the earth* will know that there exists a God belonging to Israel.*+

17 At once A·bishʹai+ the son of Ze·ruʹiah came to his help+ and struck the Phi·lisʹtine down and put him to death. At that time the men of David swore to him, saying: “You must not go out with us to the battle anymore,+ that you may not extinguish+ the lamp+ of Israel!”