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2 Samuel 10:1-2
New Living Translation
2 Samuel 10:1-2
New Living Translation
David Defeats the Ammonites
10 Some time after this, King Nahash[a] of the Ammonites died, and his son Hanun became king. 2 David said, “I am going to show loyalty to Hanun just as his father, Nahash, was always loyal to me.” So David sent ambassadors to express sympathy to Hanun about his father’s death.
But when David’s ambassadors arrived in the land of Ammon,
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- 10:1 As in parallel text at 1 Chr 19:1; Hebrew reads the king.
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