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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: SA2 19:42 And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because
the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this
matter? have we eaten at all of the king's cost? or hath he given us any
gift?
SA2 19:43 And 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
ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had
in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were
fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
SA2 20:1 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was
Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said,
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