10 Then David said, “O Lord, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city on my account.

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15 (A)“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16     in their paths are ruin and misery,

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15 Like (A)a roaring lion or (B)a charging bear
    is (C)a wicked ruler over a poor people.

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But he disdained[a] to lay hands on Mordecai alone. So, as they had made known to him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy[b] all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 3:6 Hebrew disdained in his eyes
  2. Esther 3:6 Or annihilate

And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.

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19 And Nob, the city of the priests, he put to the sword; (A)both man and woman, child and infant, ox, donkey and sheep, he put to the sword.

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24 Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you then sweep away the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it?

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