📖WEB · 2 Samuel 3:39
What does 2 Samuel 3:39 mean?
"I am weak today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. May Yahweh reward the evildoer according to his wickedness.”"
— 2 Samuel 3:39 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatever the king did pleased all the people.
So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner.
The king said to his servants, “Don’t you know that there a prince and a great man has fallen today in Israel?
I am weak today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. May Yahweh reward the evildoer according to his wickedness.”
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