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When he looked back and saw me, he called to me, and I said, ‘Yes?’”

“He asked me, ‘Who are you?’

“I said to him, ‘I’m an Amalekite.’

“He said to me, ‘Please stand over me and kill me. I’m alive, but I’m suffering.’[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 1:9 Hebrew meaning uncertain.

When he turned around and saw me, he called out to me, and I said, ‘What can I do?’

“He asked me, ‘Who are you?’

“‘An Amalekite,(A)’ I answered.

“Then he said to me, ‘Stand here by me and kill me!(B) I’m in the throes of death, but I’m still alive.’

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