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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Tanach: 2_Samuel 16: 9 Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king: 'Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.'
2_Samuel 16: 10 And the king said: 'What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? So let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him: Curse David; who then shall say: Wherefore hast thou done so?'
2_Samuel 16: 11 And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants: 'Behold, my son, who came forth of my body, seeketh my life; how much more this Benjamite now? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him.
2_Samuel 16: 12 It may be that the LORD will look on mine eye, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing of me this day.'
2_Samuel 16: 13 So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hill-side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.
2_Samuel 16: 14 And the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary; and he refreshed himself there.
2_Samuel 16: 15 And Absalom, and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
2_Samuel 16: 16 And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, was come unto Absalom, that Hushai said unto Absalom: 'Long live the king, long live the king.'
2_Samuel 16: 17 And Absalom said to Hushai: 'Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?'
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