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At this very moment he is hiding out in one of the caves or in some other similar place. If it should turn out that he attacks our troops first,[a] whoever hears about it will say, ‘Absalom’s army has been slaughtered!’

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  1. 2 Samuel 17:9 tn Heb “that he falls on them [i.e., Absalom’s troops] at the first [encounter]; or “that some of them [i.e., Absalom’s troops] fall at the first [encounter].”