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2 Samuel 1:2

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1:2 On the third day a man arrived from the camp of Saul with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. 1  When he approached David, the man 2  threw himself to the ground. 3 

2 Samuel 4:4

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4:4 Now Saul’s son Jonathan had a son who was crippled in both feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan arrived from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but in her haste to get away, he fell and was injured. 4  Mephibosheth was his name.

2 Samuel 14:17

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14:17 So your servant said, ‘May the word of my lord the king be my security, for my lord the king is like the angel of God when it comes to deciding between right and wrong! May the Lord your God be with you!’”

2 Samuel 15:21

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15:21 But Ittai replied to the king, “As surely as the Lord lives and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king is, whether dead or alive, 5  there I 6  will be as well!”

2 Samuel 17:9

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17:9 At this very moment he is hiding out in one of the caves or in some other similar place. If it should turn out that he attacks our troops first, 7  whoever hears about it will say, ‘Absalom’s army has been slaughtered!’

2 Samuel 21:20

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21:20 Yet another battle occurred in Gath. On that occasion there was a large man 8  who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in all! He too was a descendant of Rapha.
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[1:2]  1 sn Tearing one’s clothing and throwing dirt on one’s head were outward expressions of grief in the ancient Near East, where such demonstrable reactions were a common response to tragic news.

[1:2]  2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the man mentioned at the beginning of v. 2) has been specified in the translation to avoid confusion as to who fell to the ground.

[1:2]  3 tn Heb “he fell to the ground and did obeisance.”

[4:4]  4 tn Heb “and was lame.”

[15:21]  7 tn Heb “whether for death or for life.”

[15:21]  8 tn Heb “your servant.”

[17:9]  10 tn Heb “that he falls on them [i.e., Absalom’s troops] at the first [encounter]; or “that some of them [i.e., Absalom’s troops] fall at the first [encounter].”

[21:20]  13 tn Heb “a man of stature.”



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