OLD TESTAMENT

2 Samuel 3:28

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Afterward, when David heard it, he said, “I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.

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Verse 28. Innocent. I would not purchase a kingdom at such a price. Calmet.—I beg that the crime may not be imputed to us, who are innocent. Bible.—God sometimes punishes a whole kingdom for the sins of the rulers. Menochius.—Yet not without some fault of the subjects. Bible.

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