OLD TESTAMENT

1 Samuel 20:8

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Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the LORD with you; but if there is iniquity in me, kill me yourself, for why should you bring me to your father?”

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Verse 8. Lord, the most durable and sacred, confirmed by the name of God. Calmet.—Kill. So Moses besought God to take away his life. A friend would put him to as little torture as possible. Menochius.—But David only means strongly to assert his own innocence. Bible.

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