32 (A)The Lord will return his blood on his own head, (B)because he [a]struck two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, while my father David did not know about it: (C)Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and (D)Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

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  1. 1 Kings 2:32 Lit attacked

32 The Lord will repay(A) him for the blood he shed,(B) because without my father David knowing it he attacked two men and killed them with the sword. Both of them—Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa(C) son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army—were better(D) men and more upright than he.

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