20 (A)The breath of our nostrils, (B)the Lord's anointed,
    was captured (C)in their pits,
of whom we said, (D)“Under his shadow
    we shall live among the nations.”

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13 (A)And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare. And (B)I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, (C)yet he shall not see it, and he shall die there.

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But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in (A)the plains of Jericho. And when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, at (B)Riblah, in the land of Hamath; (C)and he passed sentence on him.

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21 Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, “Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because (A)he cursed the Lord's anointed?”

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then the Lord God formed the man of (A)dust from the ground and (B)breathed into his (C)nostrils the breath of life, and (D)the man became a living creature.

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Her gates have sunk into the ground;
    (A)he has ruined (B)and broken her bars;
(C)her king and princes are among the nations;
    the law is no more,
and (D)her prophets find
    no vision from the Lord.

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14 David said to him, “How is it you were not (A)afraid to put out your hand to destroy (B)the Lord's anointed?”

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The nations heard about him;
    (A)he was caught in their pit,
(B)and they brought him with hooks
    to the land of Egypt.
When she saw that she waited in vain,
    that her hope was lost,
(C)she took another of her cubs
    and made him a young lion.
He prowled among the lions;
    he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch prey;
    he devoured men,
and seized[a] their widows.
    He laid waste their cities,
and the land was appalled and all who were in it
    at the sound of his roaring.
(D)Then the nations set against him
    from provinces on every side;
(E)they spread their net over him;
    (F)he was taken in their pit.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 19:7 Hebrew knew

18 He despised the oath in breaking the covenant, and behold, he gave his hand and did all these things; he shall not escape.

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But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.

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20 (A)I have found David, my servant;
    with my holy oil I have (B)anointed him,
21 so that my (C)hand shall be established with him;
    my arm also shall strengthen him.

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(A)But the men said, “You shall not go out. For if we flee, they will not care about us. If half of us die, they will not care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore it is better that you send us help from the city.”

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21 (A)“You mountains of Gilboa,
    let there be no dew or rain upon you,
    nor fields of offerings![a]
For there the shield of the mighty was defiled,
    the shield of Saul, not (B)anointed with oil.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 1:21 Septuagint firstfruits

16 This thing that you have done is not good. (A)As the Lord lives, you deserve to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, the Lord's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is and the jar of water that was (B)at his head.”

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But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can put out his hand (A)against the Lord's anointed and be guiltless?”

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10 Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the Lord gave you today into my hand in the cave. (A)And some told me to kill you, but I spared you.[a] I said, ‘I will not put out my hand against my lord, (B)for he is the Lord's anointed.’

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  1. 1 Samuel 24:10 Septuagint, Syriac, Targum; Hebrew it [my eye] spared you

He said to his men, (A)“The Lord forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the Lord's anointed, to put out my hand against him, seeing he is (B)the Lord's anointed.”

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When they came, he looked on (A)Eliab and thought, “Surely the Lord's anointed is before him.”

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And he said to them, “The Lord is witness against you, and (A)his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything (B)in my hand.” And they said, “He is witness.”

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Here I am; testify against me before the Lord and before (A)his anointed. (B)Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me[a] and I will restore it to you.”

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  1. 1 Samuel 12:3 Septuagint; Hebrew lacks Testify against me

30 “Now therefore, as soon as I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the boy's life,

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