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31 Then the Sudanese messenger came. “Good news for Your Majesty!” he said. “Today Yahweh has freed you from all who turned against you.”

32 “Is the young man Absalom alright?” the king asked.

The Sudanese messenger answered, “May your enemies and all who turned against you be like that young man!”[a]

33 The king was shaken by the news. He went to the room above the gate and cried. “My son Absalom!” he said as he went. “My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died in your place! Absalom, my son, my son!”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 18:32 2 Samuel 18:33 in English Bibles is 2 Samuel 19:1 in the Hebrew Bible.

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