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2 Samuel Heb. 12:15 ~ looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled;

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2 Samuel Disaster ~ ra` – KJV, evil

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2 Samuel Female servant ~ KJV, wench

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2 Samuel Mahanaim ~ double camp

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2 Samuel F. B. Meyer ~ "It was as though God stooped over that stricken soul, and as the blows of the rod cut long furrows in the sufferer's back, the balm of Gilead was poured into the gaping wounds. Voices spoke more gently; hands touched his more softly; pitiful compassion rained tender assurances about his path; and, better than all, the bright- harnessed angels of God's protection encamped about his path and his lying down."

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2 Samuel John Trapp ~ "So he hung between heaven and earth, as rejected of both."

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2 Samuel Belt ~ KJV, girdle

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2 Samuel Howard Butt ~ "It is my pride that makes me independent of God. It's appealing to me to feel that I am the master of my fate, that I run my life, call my own shots, go it alone. But that feeling is my basic dishonesty. I can't go it alone. I have to get help from other people, and I can't ultimately rely on myself. I'm dependent on God for my next breath. It is dishonest of me to pretend that I'm anything but a man – small, weak and limited. So, living independent of God is self-delusion. It is not just a matter of pride being an unfortunate little trait and humility being an attractive little virtue; it's my inner psychological integrity that's at stake. When I am conceited, I am lying to myself about what I am. I am pretending to be God and not man. My pride is the idolatrous worship of myself. And that is the national religion of Hell!

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2 Samuel C. H. Spurgeon ~ "Our children may plunge into the worst of sins, but they are our children still. They may scoff at our God; they may tear our heart to pieces with their wickedness; we cannot take complacency in them, but at the same time we cannot unchild them, nor erase their image from our hearts."

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2 Samuel A.W. Tozer ~ "It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply."

2 Samuel C. S. Lewis ~ "If anyone thinks Christians regard unchastity as the supreme vice, he is quite wrong. The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the least bad of all sins. All the worst pleasures are purely spiritual. The pleasure of putting other people in the wrong, of bossing and patronizing and spoiling sport, and backbiting; the pleasures of power, of hatred. For there are two things inside me competing with the human self which I must try to become; they are the animal self, and the diabolical self; and the diabolical self is the worst of the two. That is why a cold, self-righteous prig, who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to hell than a prostitute. But, of course, it's better to be neither."

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