Then Joab came into the house to the king and said, “Today you have shamed [a]all your servants, who have saved your life today and the lives of your sons and daughters, the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines, by loving those who hate you, and by hating those who love you. For you have revealed today that [b]commanders and servants are nothing to you; for I know today that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, then it would be right [c]as far as you are concerned.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 19:5 Lit the faces of all
  2. 2 Samuel 19:6 Or princes
  3. 2 Samuel 19:6 Lit in your eyes

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