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1 Samuel 6:19

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6:19 But the Lord 1  struck down some of the people of Beth Shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the Lord; he struck down 50,070 2  of the men. The people grieved because the Lord had struck the people with a hard blow.

1 Samuel 21:6

Context

21:6 So the priest gave him holy bread, for there was no bread there other than the bread of the Presence. It had been removed from before the Lord in order to replace it with hot bread on the day it had been taken away.

1 Samuel 30:21

Context

30:21 Then David approached the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to go with him, 3  those whom they had left at the Wadi Besor. They went out to meet David and the people who were with him. When David approached the people, he asked how they were doing.

1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

2 tc The number 50,070 is surprisingly large, although it finds almost unanimous textual support in the MT and in the ancient versions. Only a few medieval Hebrew mss lack “50,000,” reading simply “70” instead. However, there does not seem to be sufficient external evidence to warrant reading 70 rather than 50,070, although that is done by a number of recent translations (e.g., NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). The present translation (reluctantly) follows the MT and the ancient versions here.

3 tn Heb “David.” The pronoun (“him”) has been substituted for the proper name in the translation for stylistic reasons.



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