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2 Samuel 16:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The king said to Ziba, ‘Why do you have these? ’ Ziba answered, ‘The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, the bread and summer fruit are for the young men to eat, and the wine is for those to drink who become exhausted in the wilderness.’

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honey, curds, sheep, goats, and cheese  from the herd for David and the people with him to eat. They had reasoned, ‘The people must be hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness.’


He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys. They had thirty towns  in Gilead, which are still called Jair’s Villages  today.


You who ride on white   donkeys, who sit on saddle blankets, and who travel on the road, give praise!


When your people ask you, “Won’t you explain to us what you mean by these things? ”   #– #


‘My lord the king,’ he replied, ‘my servant Ziba betrayed me. Actually your servant said, “I’ll saddle the donkey for myself  so that I may ride it and go with the king” #– #for your servant is lame.


Everyone in the countryside was weeping loudly while all the people were marching out of the city. As the king was crossing the Kidron Valley, all the people were marching past on the road that leads to the wilderness.


After this, Absalom got himself a chariot, horses, and fifty men to run before him.


Let this gift  your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.


Then one of the troops said, ‘Your father made the troops solemnly swear, “The man who eats food today is cursed,” and the troops are exhausted.’


So Esau said, ‘What do you mean by this whole procession  I met? ’ ‘To find favour with you, my lord,’  he answered.


And Abimelech said to Abraham, ‘Why have you separated these seven ewe lambs? ’





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