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2 Samuel 3:7-9
New Catholic Bible
2 Samuel 3:7-9
New Catholic Bible
7 Now Saul had had a concubine whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. And Ishbaal said to Abner: “Why have you slept with my father’s concubine?”
8 Abner became enraged at this insult of Ishbaal, and he said: “Am I nothing more than a dog’s head in Judah? I have continued to be loyal to the house of your father Saul and to his brothers and friends, and I have not betrayed you into the hands of David. Yet now you charge me with a crime involving a woman.
9 “May God punish Abner severely, and inflict even greater ills, if I fail to accomplish for David what the Lord swore to him.
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