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He shall make fourfold restitution[a] for the lamb because he has done this and was unsparing.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 12:6 Fourfold restitution: David’s judgment foreshadows the deaths of four of his own sons: the child born of his adulterous union with Bathsheba (v. 18); Amnon (13:28–29); Absalom (18:15; 19:1); and Adonijah (1 Kgs 2:24–25).

He must pay for that lamb four times over,(A) because he did such a thing and had no pity.”

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