OLD TESTAMENT

2 Samuel 13:26

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Then Absalom said, “If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us.” The king said to him, “Why should he go with you?”

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Verse 26. Amnon. He mentions him as the eldest, and that David might suppose that they were perfectly reconciled. Calmet.—The unhappy father seems for a long time to have expressed a reluctance and foreboding. Bible.

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