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with a third of you at the Sur gate, and a third at the gate behind the guards. Keep watch over the palace[a] and defend it. Two[b] of you who enter here on this coming[c] Sabbath are to stand watch at the Lord’s Temple, guarding the king and surrounding him with weapons in hand. Whoever comes within range is to be killed. Stay with the king wherever he goes, coming or going.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 11:6 Or Temple; Lit. house
  2. 2 Kings 11:7 Lit. Two hands
  3. 2 Kings 11:7 The Heb. lacks this coming