OLD TESTAMENT

2 Samuel 11:13

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When David had called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn’t go down to his house.

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Verse 13. Couch. It seems he was one of the guards. Josephus says he was Joab’s armour-bearer, (Ant. vii. 7.) and one of David’s heroes. Calmet. 23:39.

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