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2 Samuel 2:14
New English Translation
2 Samuel 2:14
New English Translation
14 Abner said to Joab, “Let the soldiers get up and fight[a] before us.” Joab said, “So be it!”[b]
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- 2 Samuel 2:14 tn Heb “play.” What is in view here is a gladiatorial contest in which representative groups of soldiers engage in mortal combat before the watching armies. Cf. NAB “perform for us”; NASB “hold (have NRSV) a contest before us”; NLT “put on an exhibition of hand-to-hand combat.”
- 2 Samuel 2:14 tn Heb “let them arise.”
2 Samuel 2:14
New International Version
2 Samuel 2:14
New International Version
14 Then Abner said to Joab, “Let’s have some of the young men get up and fight hand to hand in front of us.”
“All right, let them do it,” Joab said.
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