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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 20: 23 Now Joab was over all the host of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites;
2_Samuel 20: 24 and Adoram was over the levy; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;
2_Samuel 20: 25 and Sheva was scribe; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
2_Samuel 20: 26 and Ira also the Jairite was chief minister unto David.
2_Samuel 21: 1 And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said: 'It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.'
2_Samuel 21: 2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them--now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them; and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah--
2_Samuel 21: 3 and David said unto the Gibeonites: 'What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?'
2_Samuel 21: 4 And the Gibeonites said unto him: 'It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.' And he said: 'What say ye that I should do for you?'
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