¹² The cows went straight up the road to Beth-shemesh.^(A) They stayed on that one road,^(B) lowing as they went; they never strayed to the right or to the left. The Philistine rulers were walking behind them to the territory of Beth-shemesh.

²¹ Don’t turn away to follow worthless^[a] things that can’t profit or rescue you; they are worthless.^(A)

⁵ For David did what was right in the Lord’s sight, and he did not turn aside from anything he had commanded him all the days of his life,^(A) except in the matter of Uriah^(B) the Hethite.

² He did what was right in the Lord’s sight and walked in all the ways of his ancestor David;^(A) he did not turn to the right or the left.^(B)

² He did what was right in the Lord’s sight and walked in the ways of his ancestor David;^(A) he did not turn aside to the right or the left.