15 you are to appoint over you the king the Lord your God chooses.(A) Appoint a king from your brothers. You are not to set a foreigner over you, or one who is not of your people.(B)

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15 be sure to appoint(A) over you a king the Lord your God chooses. He must be from among your fellow Israelites.(B) Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not an Israelite.

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let seven of his male descendants be handed over to us so we may hang[a] them in the presence of the Lord(A) at Gibeah of Saul,(B) the Lord’s chosen.”(C)

The king answered, “I will hand them over.”

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Footnotes

  1. 21:6 Or impale, or expose

let seven of his male descendants be given to us to be killed and their bodies exposed(A) before the Lord at Gibeah of Saul—the Lord’s chosen(B) one.”

So the king said, “I will give them to you.”

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