⁵ Then Joab came into the house to the king and said, “Today you have shamed ^[a]all your servants, who have saved your life today and the lives of your sons and daughters, the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines, ⁶ by loving those who hate you, and by hating those who love you. For you have revealed today that ^[b]commanders and servants are nothing to you; for I know today that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, then it would be right ^[c]as far as you are concerned. ⁷ Now therefore arise, go out and speak ^[d]kindly to your servants, for I swear by the Lord, if you do not go out, ^(A)no man will stay the night with you, and this will be worse for you than all the misfortune that has ^[e]happened to you from your youth until now!”