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15 So David said to Abner, “Are you not a man? And who is like you in Israel? Why did you not keep watch over your lord the king? For one of the people came to destroy[a] your lord the king. 16 This thing that you have done is not good. As Yahweh lives,[b] surely you people deserve to die[c] since you have not kept watch over your lord, over Yahweh’s anointed one! So then, see where the king’s spear is and the jar of water that was near his head!” 17 Then Saul recognized David’s voice and said, “Is this your voice, my son David?” And David said, “It is my voice, my lord the king.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 26:15 Or “to kill”
  2. 1 Samuel 26:16 Literally “the life of Yahweh”
  3. 1 Samuel 26:16 Literally “you are sons of death”