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2 Samuel 21:1
The Message
2 Samuel 21:1
The Message
Famine and War
21 There was a famine in David’s time. It went on year after year after year—three years. David went to God seeking the reason.
God said, “This is because there is blood on Saul and his house, from the time he massacred the Gibeonites.”
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Copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson
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