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2 Samuel 6:20

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6:20 When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house, 1  Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him. 2  She said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished 3  himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool 4  might do!”

2 Samuel 12:3

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12:3 But the poor man had nothing except for a little lamb he had acquired. He raised it, and it grew up alongside him and his children. 5  It used to 6  eat his food, 7  drink from his cup, and sleep in his arms. 8  It was just like a daughter to him.

2 Samuel 17:25

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17:25 Absalom had made Amasa general in command of the army in place of Joab. (Now Amasa was the son of an Israelite man named Jether, who had married 9  Abigail the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.)

2 Samuel 21:10

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21:10 Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain fell on them, 10  she did not allow the birds of the air to feed 11  on them by day, nor the wild animals 12  by night.

1 tn Heb “and David returned to bless his house.”

2 tn Heb “David.” The name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

3 tn Heb “honored.”

4 tn Heb “one of the foolish ones.”

5 tn Heb “his sons.”

6 tn The three Hebrew imperfect verbal forms in this sentence have a customary nuance; they describe past actions that were repeated or typical.

7 tn Heb “from his morsel.”

8 tn Heb “and on his chest [or perhaps, “lap”] it would lay.”

9 tn Heb “come to.”

10 tn Heb “until water was poured on them from the sky.”

11 tn Heb “rest.”

12 tn Heb “the beasts of the field.”



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