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2 Samuel 21:6-8
Common English Bible
2 Samuel 21:6-8
Common English Bible
6 hand over seven of his sons to us, and we will hang them before the Lord at Gibeon[a] on the Lord’s mountain.”
“I will hand them over,” the king said.
7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, Jonathan’s son and Saul’s grandson, because of the Lord’s solemn pledge that was between them—between David and Saul’s son Jonathan. 8 So the king took the two sons of Aiah’s daughter Rizpah, Armoni and Mephibosheth, whom she had birthed for Saul; and the five sons of Saul’s daughter Merab,[b] whom she birthed for Adriel, Barzillai’s son, who was from Meholah,
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- 2 Samuel 21:6 Correction; cf LXX and 21:9; MT at Gibeah of Saul, the Lord’s chosen one
- 2 Samuel 21:8 LXXLN; MT Michal (but cf 2 Sam 6:23)
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