OLD TESTAMENT

1 Samuel 20:15

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but you shall also not cut off your kindness from my house forever, no, not when the LORD has cut off every one of the enemies of David from the surface of the earth.”

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Verse 15. May he. It is a curse upon himself, if he should not be faithful to his promise.—It. That is, revenge it upon David’s enemies, and upon me, if I shall fail of my word given to him. Challoner.—The Hebrew and several Latin MSS. stop at earth; and what follows, is not found in some Greek and Latin editions. Calmet.—Enemies. May God punish David’s enemies, and me among the rest. Menochius.

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