OLD TESTAMENT

1 Samuel 26:16

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16

This thing isn’t good that you have done. As the LORD lives, you are worthy to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, the LORD’s anointed. Now see where the king’s spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head.”

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Verse 16. Death; that is you deserve to die. Such negligence was punishable with death, according to the Roman laws; & qui excubias. Grot.

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