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2 Samuel 20:17-19
Wycliffe Bible
2 Samuel 20:17-19
Wycliffe Bible
17 And when he had nighed to her, she said to him, Art thou Joab? And he answered, I am. To whom she spake thus, Hear thou the words of thine handmaid. Joab answered, I hear (And Joab answered, I am listening).
18 And again she said, A word was said in (an) eld proverb, They that ask, ask in Abel; and so they profited.
19 Whether I am not, that answer truth to Israel? and seekest thou to destroy a city, and to do away a mother city in Israel?[a] why castedest thou down/why throwest thou down the heritage of the Lord? (My city is one of the most peaceful, and faithful, in all of Israel; so why seekest thou to destroy such a city, and to do away such a mother in Israel? why throwest thou down the Lord’s inheritance?)
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- 2 Samuel 20:19 The woman speaketh in the person of the city, as if she said, ‘This city held ever truth and faith to the king’; and therefore in Hebrew it is thus, ‘I am one of peaceable and true’, that is, one of the number of cities (that be) peaceable and true to the king.
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2001 by Terence P. Noble