The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more [right] in David than you: why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
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More right in David than you. —The Septuagint adds, “and I am the firstborn rather than you,”—an unnecessary gloss, and certainly …

And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said ,
&c.] They replied to them, as follows:

The men of Israel thought themselves despised, and the fiercer words of the men of Judah produced very bad effects. Much evil might be avoided, if …
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