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2 Samuel 3:7-9
Common English Bible
2 Samuel 3:7-9
Common English Bible
7 Now Saul had a secondary wife named Rizpah, Aiah’s daughter. Ishbosheth[a] said to Abner, “Why have you had sex with my father’s secondary wife?”
8 Abner got very angry over what Ishbosheth had said.
“Am I some sort of dog’s head?”[b] Abner asked. “I’ve been nothing but loyal to the house of your father Saul and to his brothers and his friends. I haven’t handed you over to David, but today you accuse me of doing something wrong with this woman. 9 May God deal harshly with me, Abner, and worse still if I don’t do for David exactly what the Lord swore to him—
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- 2 Samuel 3:7 Or he, supplied from 3:8; see note at 2:8 on Ishbosheth.
- 2 Samuel 3:8 LXX; MT adds that belongs to Judah.
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