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Hushai said, “You know that your father and his men are mighty men, and that they are enraged,[a] (A)like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Besides, your father is experienced in war; he will not spend the night with the people.

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  1. 2 Samuel 17:8 Hebrew bitter of soul

I will fall upon them (A)like a bear robbed of her cubs;
    I will tear open their breast,
and there I will devour them like a lion,
    (B)as a wild beast would rip them open.

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