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Yahweh is paying you back for all the blood you spilled in the family of Saul, whom you succeeded as king. Yahweh is giving the kingship to your son Absalom. Now you’re in trouble because you’re a bloodthirsty man.”

Abishai, Zeruiah’s son, asked the king, “Why should this dead dog curse you, Your Majesty? Let me go over there and tear off his head.”

10 But the king said, “You don’t think like me at all, sons of Zeruiah. Let him curse. If Yahweh has told him, ‘Curse David,’ should anyone ask, ‘Why do you do that?’”

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