footmen: or, guard, Heb. runners, 1 Samuel 8:11; 2 Samuel 15:1; 1 Kings 1:5
slay the priests: 1 Samuel 22:13, 1 Samuel 20:33, 1 Samuel 25:17; 1 Kings 18:4
would not: 1 Samuel 14:45; Exodus 1:17; 2 Kings 1:13-14; Acts 4:19
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1 Samuel 22:17
1 Samuel 22:17
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