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These words of Ish Bosheth really angered Abner and he said, “Am I the head of a dog that belongs to Judah? This very day I am demonstrating[a] loyalty to the house of Saul your father and to his relatives[b] and his friends! I have not betrayed you into the hand of David. Yet you have accused me of sinning with this woman today![c] God will severely judge Abner[d] if I do not do for David exactly what the Lord has promised him,[e] 10 namely, to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and to establish the throne of David over Israel and over Judah all the way from Dan to Beer Sheba!”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 3:8 tn Heb “I do.”
  2. 2 Samuel 3:8 tn Heb “brothers.”
  3. 2 Samuel 3:8 tn Heb “and you have laid upon me the guilt of the woman today.”
  4. 2 Samuel 3:9 tn Heb “So will God do to Abner and so he will add to him.”
  5. 2 Samuel 3:9 tc Heb “has sworn to David.” The LXX, with the exception of the recension of Origen, adds “in this day.”