11 Uriah said to David, (A)“The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths, and my lord Joab and (B)the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? As you live, and (C)as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.”

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And David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom. Take (A)your lord's servants and pursue him, lest he get himself to fortified cities and escape from us.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 20:6 Hebrew and snatch away our eyes

33 And the king said to them, “Take with you (A)the servants of your lord and have Solomon my son ride on my own mule, and bring him down to (B)Gihon.

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