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2 Samuel 19:16-18
Common English Bible
2 Samuel 19:16-18
Common English Bible
16 Gera’s son Shimei, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, hurried down with the people of Judah to meet King David. 17 A thousand men from Benjamin were with him. Ziba too, the servant of Saul’s house, along with his fifteen sons and twenty servants, rushed to the Jordan ahead of the king 18 to do the work of ferrying[a] over the king’s household and to do whatever pleased him.
Gera’s son Shimei fell down before the king when he crossed the Jordan.
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- 2 Samuel 19:18 LXX; MT while the crossing was under way, to ferry
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