Hushai continued, “You know your father and his men. They are warriors and are desperate like a wild bear robbed of her cubs.(A) Your father is an experienced soldier who won’t spend the night with the people.

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For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

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I will attack them
like a bear robbed of her cubs
and tear open the rib cage over their hearts.
I will devour them there like a lioness,(A)
like a wild beast that would rip them open.

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I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

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