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38 Then the king said to his servants, “Do you not realize that a great leader[a] has fallen this day in Israel? 39 Today I am weak, even though I am anointed as king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too much for me to bear![b] May the Lord punish appropriately the one who has done this evil thing!”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 3:38 tn Heb “a leader and a great one.” The expression is a hendiadys.
  2. 2 Samuel 3:39 tn Heb “are hard from me.”
  3. 2 Samuel 3:39 tn Heb “May the Lord repay the doer of the evil according to his evil” (NASB similar).