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2 Samuel 2:27
New English Translation
2 Samuel 2:27
New English Translation
27 Joab replied, “As surely as God lives, if you had not said this, it would have been morning before the people would have abandoned pursuit[a] of their brothers.”
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- 2 Samuel 2:27 tn The Hebrew verb נַעֲלָה (naʿalah) used here is the Niphal perfect third person masculine singular of עָלָה (ʿalah, “to go up”). In the Niphal this verb “is used idiomatically, of getting away from so as to abandon…especially of an army raising a siege…” (see S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 244).
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