Why then have you despised the command of the Lord by doing what I consider[a] evil?(A) You struck down Uriah(B) the Hittite with the sword and took his wife as your own wife—you murdered him with the Ammonite’s sword.(C)

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  1. 2 Samuel 12:9 Alt Hb tradition reads what He considers

Why did you despise(A) the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down(B) Uriah(C) the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed(D) him with the sword of the Ammonites.

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19 The king said to Ittai the Gittite,(A) “Why are you also going with us? Go back and stay with the new king since you’re both a foreigner and an exile from your homeland.

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19 The king said to Ittai(A) the Gittite, “Why should you come along with us? Go back and stay with King Absalom. You are a foreigner,(B) an exile from your homeland.

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