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2 Samuel 19:6-8
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6 You seem to love your enemies and hate your friends! For you have as much as declared today that leaders and servants don’t matter to you. I realize now[a] that if[b] Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today,[c] it would be all right with you. 7 So get up now and go out and give some encouragement to[d] your servants. For I swear by the Lord that if you don’t go out there, not a single man will stay here with you tonight! This disaster will be worse for you than any disaster that has overtaken you from your youth right to the present time!”

8 So the king got up and sat at the city gate. When all the people were informed that the king was sitting at the city gate, they[e] all came before him.

David Goes Back to Jerusalem

But the Israelite soldiers[f] had all fled to their own homes.[g]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 19:6 tn Heb “today.”
  2. 2 Samuel 19:6 tc The translation follows the Qere, 4QSama, and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading לוּ (lu, “if”) rather than MT לֹא (loʾ, “not”).
  3. 2 Samuel 19:6 tc The Lucianic Greek recension and Syriac Peshitta lack “today.”
  4. 2 Samuel 19:7 tn Heb “and speak to the heart of.”
  5. 2 Samuel 19:8 tn Heb “all the people.”
  6. 2 Samuel 19:8 tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” (see 18:16-17).
  7. 2 Samuel 19:8 tn Heb “had fled, each to his tent.”
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