⁹ Now, however, you should not let him go unpunished. You are a wise man, and you will know what you should do to him — you will bring his gray head down to the grave with blood.”

¹⁰ Then David slept with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David. ¹¹ David had ruled Isra’el for forty years — seven years in Hevron and thirty-three years in Yerushalayim.