Answered. — Hebrew, said.

The Lord... as they be. — Literally, Jehovah add upon his people like them an hundred times, an

abridged form of what is read in Samuel.

But, my lord the king, are they not ...? — Instead of this, Samuel records another wish, “And may the eyes of my lord the king be seeing,” that is, living (Genesis 16:13).

Why then doth my lord require this thing? — So Samuel, in slightly different terms: “And my lord the king, why desireth he this proposal?”

Why will he be (why should he become) a cause of trespass to Israel? — Not in Samuel. It is an explanatory addition by the chronicler.

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