2 Samuel 1:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

David said to him,“Your blood be on your own head! Your own mouth has testified against you, saying‘I have put the LORD’s anointed to death.’”

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלָיו֙ דָּוִ֔ד *דמיך **דָּמְךָ֖ עַל־רֹאשֶׁ֑ךָ כִּ֣י פִ֗יךָ עָנָ֤ה בְךָ֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר אָנֹכִ֥י מֹתַ֖תִּי אֶת־מְשִׁ֥יחַ יְהוָֽה׃ ס

Transliteration

And wayyōʾmer to him dāwid, 'dāmkā on rōʾšekā, for pîkā ʿānâ against you saying, ʾānōkî mōtattî ʾet-məšîaḥ YHWH.'

Grammar Details

• *wayyōʾmer*: consecutive imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he said
• *dāwid*: proper noun - David
• *dāmkā*: noun, masculine singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your blood
• *rōʾšekā*: noun, masculine singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your head
• *pîkā*: noun, masculine singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your mouth
• *ʿānâ*: perfect, 3rd masculine singular - it testified/answered
• *ʾānōkî*: personal pronoun, 1st person singular - I
• *mōtattî*: polel perfect, 1st person singular - I killed
• *məšîaḥ*: noun, masculine singular construct - anointed of
• *YHWH*: proper noun - Yahweh/LORD

Word Meanings

• *dāmkā ʿal-rōʾšekā*: your blood [be] on your head/your blood-guilt [is] on your own head
• *pîkā ʿānâ bəkā*: your mouth has testified against you/your own words condemn you
• *mōtattî*: I killed/I put to death
• *məšîaḥ YHWH*: the LORD's anointed/YHWH's anointed one

Referenced Verses

• Matt 27:25 : 25 In reply all the people said,“Let his blood be on us and on our children!”
• Luke 19:22 : 22 The king said to him,‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! So you knew, did you, that I was a severe man, withdrawing what I didn’t deposit and reaping what I didn’t sow?
• 1 Kgs 2:37 : 37 If you ever do leave and cross the Kidron Valley, know for sure that you will certainly die! You will be responsible for your own death.”
• Lev 20:9 : 9 Family Life and Sexual Prohibitions“‘If anyone curses his father and mother he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself.
• 1 Sam 26:9 : 9 But David said to Abishai,“Don’t kill him! Who can extend his hand against the LORD’s chosen one and remain guiltless?”
• 2 Sam 1:10 : 10 So I stood over him and put him to death, since I knew that he couldn’t live in such a condition. Then I took the crown which was on his head and the bracelet which was on his arm. I have brought them here to my lord.”
• Josh 2:19 : 19 Anyone who leaves your house will be responsible for his own death– we are innocent in that case! But if anyone with you in the house is harmed, we will be responsible.
• Judg 9:24 : 24 He did this so the violent deaths of Jerub-Baal’s seventy sons might be avenged and Abimelech, their half-brother who murdered them, might have to pay for their spilled blood, along with the leaders of Shechem who helped him murder them.
• Gen 9:5-6 : 5 For your lifeblood I will surely exact punishment, from every living creature I will exact punishment. From each person I will exact punishment for the life of the individual since the man was his relative. 6 “Whoever sheds human blood, by other humans must his blood be shed; for in God’s image God has made humankind.”
• 2 Sam 3:28-29 : 28 When David later heard about this, he said,“I and my kingdom are forever innocent before the LORD of the shed blood of Abner son of Ner! 29 May his blood whirl over the head of Joab and the entire house of his father! May the males of Joab’s house never cease to have someone with a running sore or a skin disease or one who works at the spindle or one who falls by the sword or one who lacks food!”
• 1 Kgs 2:32-33 : 32 May the LORD punish him for the blood he shed; behind my father David’s back he struck down and murdered with the sword two men who were more innocent and morally upright than he– Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army. 33 May Joab and his descendants be perpetually guilty of their shed blood, but may the LORD give perpetual peace to David, his descendants, his family, and his dynasty.”
• Lev 20:11-13 : 11 If a man goes to bed with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness. Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves. 12 If a man goes to bed with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have committed perversion; their blood guilt is on themselves. 13 If a man goes to bed with a male as one goes to bed with a woman, the two of them have committed an abomination. They must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.
• Lev 20:16 : 16 If a woman approaches any animal to copulate with it, you must kill the woman, and the animal must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.
• Lev 20:27 : 27 Prohibition against Spiritists and Mediums“‘A man or woman who has in them a spirit of the dead or a familiar spirit must be put to death. They must pelt them with stones; their blood guilt is on themselves.’”
• Deut 19:10 : 10 You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.
• Job 15:6 : 6 Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your own lips testify against you.
• Prov 6:2 : 2 if you have been ensnared by the words you have uttered, and have been caught by the words you have spoken,
• Ezek 18:13 : 13 engages in usury and charges interest. Will he live? He will not! Because he has done all these abominable deeds he will certainly die. He will bear the responsibility for his own death.
• Ezek 33:5 : 5 He heard the sound of the trumpet but did not heed the warning, so he is responsible for himself. If he had heeded the warning, he would have saved his life.
• Acts 20:26 : 26 Therefore I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of you all.
• Rom 3:19 : 19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.