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2 Samuel 21:5-7
Common English Bible
2 Samuel 21:5-7
Common English Bible
5 “Okay then,” they said to the king. “That man who opposed and oppressed[a] us, who planned to destroy us, keeping us from having a place to live anywhere in Israel— 6 hand over seven of his sons to us, and we will hang them before the Lord at Gibeon[b] on the Lord’s mountain.”
“I will hand them over,” the king said.
7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, Jonathan’s son and Saul’s grandson, because of the Lord’s solemn pledge that was between them—between David and Saul’s son Jonathan.
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- 2 Samuel 21:5 LXXB; MT annihilated us
- 2 Samuel 21:6 Correction; cf LXX and 21:9; MT at Gibeah of Saul, the Lord’s chosen one
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