15 These are the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its (A)banks; and they put to flight all those in the valleys, to the east and to the west.

16 Then some of the sons of Benjamin and Judah came to David at the stronghold. 17 And David went out [a]to meet them, and answered and said to them, “If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if to betray me to my enemies, since there is no [b]wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers look and bring judgment.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 12:17 Lit. before them
  2. 1 Chronicles 12:17 Lit. violence

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