19 So he said to the king, “(A)Let not my lord consider me guilty, nor remember what your servant did wrong on the day when my lord the king came out from Jerusalem, so that the king would [a]take it to heart. 20 For your servant knows that I have sinned; therefore behold, I have come today, (B)the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.” 21 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah said, “(C)Should not Shimei be put to death for this, (D)because he cursed the Lord’s anointed?”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 19:19 Lit set