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2 Samuel 21:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Samuel 21:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 They said to the king, “The man who consumed us and planned to destroy us so that we should have no place in all the territory of Israel,(A) 6 let seven of his sons be handed over to us, and we will impale them before the Lord at Gibeon on the mountain of the Lord.”[a] The king said, “I will hand them over.”
7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Saul’s son Jonathan, because of the oath of the Lord that was between them, between David and Jonathan son of Saul.(B)
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- 21.6 Cn Compare: Heb at Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the Lord
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