2 Samuel 12:23

12:23 But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Am I able to bring him back? I will go to him, but he cannot return to me!’”

2 Samuel 14:21

14:21 Then the king said to Joab, “All right! I ¹  will do this thing! Go and bring back the young man Absalom!

2 Samuel 19:10

19:10 But Absalom, whom we anointed as our king, ²  has died in battle. So now why do you hesitate to bring the king back?” ³ 

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¹ tc Many medieval Hebrew mss have “you” rather than “I.”

² tn Heb “over us.”

³ tc The LXX includes the following words at the end of v. 11: “And what all Israel was saying came to the king’s attention.” The words are misplaced in the LXX from v. 12 (although the same statement appears there in the LXX as well).