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2 Samuel 4:9-11
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2 Samuel 4:9-11
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9 David replied to Recab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As surely as the Lord lives, who has delivered my life from all adversity, 10 when someone told me that Saul was dead—even though he thought he was bringing good news[a]—I seized him and killed him in Ziklag. That was the good news I gave to him! 11 Surely when wicked men have killed an innocent man as he slept[b] in his own house, should I not now require his blood from your hands and remove[c] you from the earth?”
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- 2 Samuel 4:10 tn Heb “and he was like a bearer of good news in his eyes.”
- 2 Samuel 4:11 tn Heb “on his bed.”
- 2 Samuel 4:11 tn See HALOT 146 s.v. II בער. Some derive the verb from a homonym meaning “to burn; to consume.”
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