Then he begged me, ‘Stand over me and kill me, for I’m mortally wounded,[a] but my life still lingers.’(A) 10 So I stood over him and killed him because I knew that after he had fallen he couldn’t survive. I took the crown that was on his head and the armband that was on his arm, and I’ve brought them here to my lord.”

11 Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them,(B) and all the men with him did the same.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 1:9 LXX reads for terrible darkness has taken hold of me

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