34 But if you return to the city and you actually say to Abʹsa·lom, ‘I am your servant, O King. I used to prove myself the servant of your father, even I at that time, but now even I am your servant,’+ you must then frustrate+ the counsel of A·hithʹo·phel for me.

29 Have you beheld a man skillful in his work? Before kings is where he will station himself;+ he will not station himself before commonplace men.

45 “Who really is the faithful and discreet slave+ whom his master appointed over his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time?+