30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have (A)brought trouble on me by (B)making me odious among the inhabitants of the land, among (C)the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and [a](D)my men being few in number, they will gather together against me and [b]attack me and I will be destroyed, I and my household.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 34:30 Lit I, few in number
  2. Genesis 34:30 Lit smite

All Israel heard [a]the news that Saul had smitten the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel (A)had become odious to the Philistines. The people were then summoned [b]to Saul at Gilgal.

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  1. 1 Samuel 13:4 Lit saying
  2. 1 Samuel 13:4 Lit after

12 So Achish believed David, saying, “He has surely made himself odious among his people Israel; therefore he will become my servant forever.”

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Now when the sons of Ammon saw that (A)they had become odious to David, the sons of Ammon sent and (B)hired the Arameans of (C)Beth-rehob and the (D)Arameans of Zobah, 20,000 foot soldiers, and the king of (E)Maacah with 1,000 men, and the men of Tob with 12,000 men.

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When the sons of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the sons of Ammon sent 1,000 talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from Mesopotamia, from Aram-maacah and (A)from Zobah.

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