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What have I to do with you ... that you should today be adversaries to me?
David uses this rhetorical question to rebuke Abishai. This can be written as a statement. Alternate translation: "We have nothing in common with you, you sons of Zeruiah! You have no good reason to become my adversaries today." (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion)
Will any man be put to death today in Israel? For do I not know that today I am king over Israel?
David uses these rhetorical questions to continue rebuking Abishai. These questions can be written as statements. Alternate translation: "No person will be executed today in the nation of Israel, because today I am the one who is king over all of Israel." (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion)
Will any man be put to death
This phrase "put to death" means to be killed or executed. Alternate translation: "Will any man be killed" or "Will I order any man to die" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom)
For do I not know that today I am king over Israel?
Possible meanings of this rhetorical question are 1) "I know that I am still king of Israel." or 2) "Today I am the one who is king over Israel!" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion)