1 Samuel 2:23

2:23 He said to them, “Why do you behave in this way? For I hear about these evil things from all these ¹  people.

1 Samuel 19:9

19:9 Then an evil spirit from the Lord came upon ²  Saul. He was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand, while David was playing the lyre. ³ 

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¹ tc For “these” the LXX has “of the Lord” (κυρίου, kuriou), perhaps through the influence of the final phrase of v. 24 (“the people of the Lord”). Somewhat less likely is the view that the MT reading is due to a distorted dittography of the first word of v. 24. The Vulgate lacks the word.

² tn Heb “[was] to.”

³ tn The Hebrew text adds here “with his hand.”