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2 Samuel 16:18-20
New English Translation
2 Samuel 16:18-20
New English Translation
18 Hushai replied to Absalom, “No, I will be loyal to the one whom the Lord, these people, and all the men of Israel have chosen.[a] 19 Moreover, whom should I serve? Should it not be his son? Just as I served your father, so I will serve you.”[b]
20 Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give us your advice. What should we do?”
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- 2 Samuel 16:18 tn Heb “No for with the one whom the Lord has chosen, and this people, and all the men of Israel, I will be and with him I will stay.” The translation follows the Qere and several medieval Hebrew mss in reading לוֹ (lo, “[I will be] to him”) rather than the MT לֹא (loʾ, “[I will] not be”), which makes very little sense here.
- 2 Samuel 16:19 tn Heb “Just as I served before your father, so I will be before you.”
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