◄ 2 Samuel 1:9 ►
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Good News Translation
Then he said, 'Come here and kill me! I have been badly wounded, and I'm about to die.'

New Revised Standard Version
He said to me, ‘Come, stand over me and kill me; for convulsions have seized me, and yet my life still lingers.’

Contemporary English Version
Then he said, "Kill me! I'm dying, and I'm in terrible pain."

New American Bible
Then he said to me, ‘Stand over me, please, and put me to death, for I am in great suffering, but still alive.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to me: Stand over me, and kill me: for anguish is come upon me, and as yet my whole life is in me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said to me: Stand over me, and kill me: for anguish is come upon me, and as yet my whole life is in me.

anguish, etc.

Context
David Learns of Saul's Death
…8And he said to me: Who art thou? And I said to him: I am an Amalecite. 9And he said to me: Stand over me, and kill me: for anguish is come upon me, and as yet my whole life is in me.10So standing over him, I killed him: for I knew that he could not live after the fall: and I took the diadem that was on his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither to thee, my lord.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 1:8
And he said to me: Who art thou? And I said to him: I am an Amalecite.

2 Samuel 1:10
So standing over him, I killed him: for I knew that he could not live after the fall: and I took the diadem that was on his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither to thee, my lord.

2 Samuel 1:8
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