¹¹ She replied, “Please, may the king invoke the Lord your God, so that the avenger of blood will not increase the loss, and they will not eliminate my son!” ^(A)

“As the Lord lives,” he vowed, “not a hair of your son will fall to the ground.”^(B)

⁵² Then Solomon said, “If he is a man of character, not a single hair of his will fall to the ground,^(A) but if evil is found in him, he dies.”^(B)

³⁴ So I urge you to take some food. For this is for your survival, since none of you will lose a hair from your head.”^(A)