1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 Samuel 25:22 God do so to the enemies of David and more also is a common conditional curse formula (as in 1 Samuel 3:17 and 1 Samuel 14:44). The word male in this verse translates a Hebrew phrase that literally means “one who urinates at a wall.” In the Bible, the phrase always refers to the killing of all the males of a group (compare 1 Kings 14:10; 2 Kings 9:8).

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