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Then I will return all the people to you; when all have returned, the man whom you are seeking will be dead,[a] but all the people will be safe.” The word was right in the eyes of Absalom and in the eyes of all the elders of Israel. Then Absalom said, “Please call also for Hushai the Arkite, and let us hear what he has to say[b] also.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 17:3 According to the MT; the LXX has “and I will return all the people to you the way a bride returns to her husband, except the life of the one man whom you are seeking”
  2. 2 Samuel 17:5 Literally “what is in his mouth”