15 These are the men who crossed the Jordan in the first month[a] when it was overflowing all its banks,(A) and put to flight all those in the valleys to the east and to the west.

16 Other Benjaminites and men from Judah also went to David at the stronghold.(B) 17 David went out to meet them and said to them, “If you have come in peace to help me, my heart will be united with you, but if you have come to betray me to my enemies even though my hands have done no wrong, may the God of our ancestors look on it and judge.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 12:15 = Nisan (March–April)

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