1 Samuel 20:8

Therefore you shall deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the LORD with you: nevertheless, if there be in me iniquity, slay me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Lord, the most durable and sacred, confirmed by the name of God. (Calmet) Kill. So Moses besought God to take away his life. A friend would put him to as little torture as possible. (Menochius) But David only means strongly to assert his own innocence. (Haydock)

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