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1 Chronicles 5:25

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5:25 But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors 1  and worshiped instead 2  the gods of the native peoples 3  whom God had destroyed before them.

1 Chronicles 10:13

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10:13 So Saul died because he was unfaithful to the Lord and did not obey the Lord’s instructions; he even tried to conjure up underworld spirits. 4 

1 tn Heb “fathers.”

2 tn Heb “prostituted themselves after.”

3 tn Heb “the peoples of the land.”

4 tn Heb “and Saul died because of his unfaithfulness by which he acted unfaithfully against the Lord, concerning the word of the Lord which he did not keep, also to Saul, a ritual pit to seek.” The text alludes to the incident recorded in 1 Sam 28. The Hebrew term אוֹב (’ov, “ritual pit”) refers to a pit used by a magician to conjure up underworld spirits. In 1 Sam 28:7 the witch of Endor is called a בַּעֲלַת־אוֹב (baalat-ov, “owner of a ritual pit”). See H. A. Hoffner, “Second Millennium Antecedents to the Hebrew áo‚b,” JBL 86 (1967): 385-401.



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