OLD TESTAMENT

2 Samuel 18:13

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Otherwise, if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hidden from the king), then you yourself would have set yourself against me.”

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Verse 13. My own. Some copies of the Hebrew and Septuagint read, “his;” others, my, and so forth The soldier would have acted against his conscience, and exposed his life to danger, if he had transgressed the king’s order. Bible.—By me? or, omitting the mark of interrogation, “Thou wouldst have declared thyself against me.” Calmet.

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