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He had even slept with a wife[a] of Saul by the name of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah. But Saul's son Ishbosheth[b] told Abner, “You shouldn't have slept with one of my father's wives!”

Abner was very angry because of what Ishbosheth had said, and he told Ishbosheth:

Am I some kind of worthless dog from Judah? I've always been loyal to your father's family and to his relatives and friends. I haven't turned you over to David. And yet you talk to me as if I've committed a crime with this woman.

I ask God to punish me if I don't help David get what the Lord promised him!

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Footnotes

  1. 3.7 wife: This translates a Hebrew word for a woman who was legally bound to a man, but without the full privileges of a wife.
  2. 3.7 Ishbosheth: See the note at 2.8.

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