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2 Samuel 11:20-22
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Samuel 11:20-22
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
20 if the king’s anger rises and if he says to you, ‘Why did you go so near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall? 21 Who killed Abimelech son of Jerubbaal?[a] Did not a woman throw an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead, too.’ ”(A)
22 So the messenger went and came and told David all that Joab had sent him to tell.
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- 11.21 Gk Syr: Heb Jerubbesheth
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