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14 At this David asked him, “How is it that you weren’t afraid to raise your hand to strike the Lord’s anointed?”

15 Then David called out to one of his young men and ordered him, “Go up to him and cut him down!” So he attacked him and killed him.

16 David told him, “Your blood is on your own head, because your own words[a] testified against you! After all, you said, ‘I myself have killed the Lord’s anointed!’”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 1:16 Lit. mouth

14 David asked him, “Why weren’t you afraid to lift your hand to destroy the Lord’s anointed?(A)

15 Then David called one of his men and said, “Go, strike him down!”(B) So he struck him down, and he died.(C) 16 For David had said to him, “Your blood be on your own head.(D) Your own mouth testified against you when you said, ‘I killed the Lord’s anointed.’”

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