21:32 So they made a treaty 1 at Beer Sheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, returned 2 to the land of the Philistines. 3
1 tn Heb “cut a covenant.”
2 tn Heb “arose and returned.”
3 sn The Philistines mentioned here may not be ethnically related to those who lived in Palestine in the time of the judges and the united monarchy. See D. M. Howard, “Philistines,” Peoples of the Old Testament World, 238.
4 tn Heb “and they got up early and they swore an oath, a man to his brother.”
5 tn Heb “and they went from him in peace.”