Discovery Box1 Kings 2:9 
Context2:9 But now 1 don’t treat him as if he were innocent. You are a wise man and you know how to handle him; 2 make sure he has a bloody death.” 3
1 Kings 2:31
Context2:31 The king told him, “Do as he said! Strike him down and bury him. Take away from me and from my father’s family 4 the guilt of Joab’s murderous, bloody deeds. 5
1 tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek and the Vulgate have here “you” rather than “now.” The two words are homonyms in Hebrew.
2 tn Heb “what you should do to him.”
3 tn Heb “bring his grey hair down in blood [to] Sheol.”
4 tn Heb “house.”
5 tn Heb “take away the undeserved bloodshed which Joab spilled from upon me and from upon the house of my father.”
