Text -- 2 Samuel 19:6 (NET)

19:6 You seem to love your enemies and hate your friends! For you have as much as declared today that leaders and servants don’t matter to you. I realize now that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, it would be all right with you.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 2Sa 19:6

¹ tn Heb “today.”

² tc The translation follows the Qere, 4QSam^a, and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading לוּ (lu, “if”) rather than MT לֹא (lo’, “not”).

³ tc The Lucianic Greek recension and Syriac Peshitta lack “today.”