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2 Samuel 17:7-9
English Standard Version
2 Samuel 17:7-9
English Standard Version
7 Then Hushai said to Absalom, “This time the counsel that Ahithophel has given is not good.” 8 Hushai said, “You know that your father and his men are mighty men, and that they are enraged,[a] (A)like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Besides, your father is expert in war; he will not spend the night with the people. 9 Behold, even now he has hidden himself in one of the pits or in some other place. And as soon as some of the people fall[b] at the first attack, whoever hears it will say, ‘There has been a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.’
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- 2 Samuel 17:8 Hebrew bitter of soul
- 2 Samuel 17:9 Or And as he falls on them
English Standard Version (ESV)
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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