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They had carried off the women and children and everyone else but without killing anyone.

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11 No one was left alive to come to Gath and tell where he had really been. This happened again and again while he was living among the Philistines.

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No, but he exiled Israel to call her to account.
    She was exiled from her land
    as though blown away in a storm from the east.
The Lord did this to purge Israel’s[a] wickedness,
    to take away all her sin.
As a result, all the pagan altars will be crushed to dust.
    No Asherah pole or pagan shrine will be left standing.

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Footnotes

  1. 27:9 Hebrew Jacob’s. See note on 14:1.

10 Human defiance only enhances your glory,
    for you use it as a weapon.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 76:10 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.

11 I said, ‘This far and no farther will you come.
    Here your proud waves must stop!’

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19 Nothing was missing: small or great, son or daughter, nor anything else that had been taken. David brought everything back.

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