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Some of Manasseh also joined David when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle, but they didn’t help them, for the lords of the Philistines sent him away after consultation, saying, “He will desert to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads.”
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Verse 19. Fight. They joined him after he had left the Philistines. Calmet.—But he. Hebrew “they helped them not.” Neither David nor his partizans were involved in this danger, which might have caused their fidelity to be suspected. 1 Kennicott. 29. Bible.
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