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2 Samuel 19:7-9
New Century Version
2 Samuel 19:7-9
New Century Version
7 Now go out and encourage your servants. I swear by the Lord that if you don’t go out, no man will be left with you by tonight! That will be worse than all the troubles you have had from your youth until today.”
8 So the king went to the city gate.[a] When the news spread that the king was at the gate, everyone came to see him.
David Goes Back to Jerusalem
All the Israelites who had followed Absalom had run away to their homes. 9 People in all the tribes of Israel began to argue, saying, “The king saved us from the Philistines and our other enemies, but he left the country because of Absalom.
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- 19:8 city gate People came here to conduct business. Public meetings and court cases were also held here.
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