2 Samuel 15:20

15:20 It seems like you arrived just yesterday. Today should I make you wander around by going with us? I go where I must go. But as for you, go back and take your men ¹  with you. May genuine loyal love ²  protect ³  you!”

2 Samuel 19:6

19:6 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 ⁴  that if ⁵  Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, ⁶  it would be all right with you.

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¹ tn Heb “brothers,” but see v. 22.

² tn Heb “loyal love and truth.” The expression is a hendiadys.

³ tn Heb “be with.”

⁴ tn Heb “today.”

⁵ tc The translation follows the Qere, 4QSam^a, and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading לוּ (lu, “if”) rather than MT לֹא (lo’, “not”).

⁶ tc The Lucianic Greek recension and Syriac Peshitta lack “today.”