Discovery Box| (0.38) | (2Sa 21:9) | 1 tc The translation follows the Qere and several medieval Hebrew mss in reading שְׁבַעְתָּם (shevaʿtam, “the seven of them”) rather than MT שִׁבַעְתִּים (shivaʿtim, “seventy”). |
| (0.38) | (2Sa 19:6) | 2 tc The translation follows the Qere, 4QSama, and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading לוּ (lu, “if”) rather than MT לֹא (loʾ, “not”). |
| (0.38) | (2Sa 18:3) | 4 tc The translation follows the LXX (except for the Lucianic recension), Symmachus, and Vulgate in reading אָתָּה (ʾattah, “you”) rather than MT עָתָּה (ʿattah, “now”). |
| (0.38) | (2Sa 18:12) | 1 tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading וְלוּ (velu, “and if”) rather than MT וְלֹא (velo’, “and not”). |
| (0.38) | (2Sa 17:8) | 1 tc The LXX (with the exception of the recensions of Origen and Lucian) repeats the description as follows: “Just as a female bear bereft of cubs in a field.” |
| (0.38) | (2Sa 14:27) | 2 tc The LXX adds here the following words: “And she became a wife to Rehoboam the son of Solomon and bore to him Abia.” |
| (0.38) | (2Sa 14:30) | 1 tc The LXX adds here the following words: “And the servants of Absalom burned them up. And the servants of Joab came to him, rending their garments. They said….” |
| (0.38) | (2Sa 13:1) | 1 tn Heb “Amnon the son of David loved her.” The following verse indicates the extreme nature of his infatuation, so the translation uses “madly in love” here. |
| (0.38) | (2Sa 7:26) | 1 tn Heb “and your name might be great permanently.” Following the imperative in v. 23b, the prefixed verbal form with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result. |
| (0.38) | (2Sa 1:11) | 1 tc The present translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading “his garments,” rather than “his garment,” the reading of the Kethib. |
| (0.38) | (1Sa 31:12) | 1 tc The translation follows the MT, which vocalizes the verb as a Qal. The LXX, however, treats the verb as a Hiphil, “they brought.” |
| (0.38) | (1Sa 25:8) | 1 tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss in reading בָּאנוּ (baʾnu, “we have come”) rather than the MT’s בָּנוּ (banu, “we have built”). |
| (0.38) | (1Sa 17:7) | 1 tn The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading “wood,” rather than the “arrow” (the reading of the Kethib). |
| (0.38) | (1Sa 17:12) | 3 tc The translation follows the Lucianic recension of the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta in reading “in years,” rather than MT “among men.” |
| (0.38) | (1Sa 17:8) | 4 tn Following the imperative, the prefixed verbal form (either an imperfect or jussive) with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result here. |
| (0.38) | (1Sa 16:4) | 3 tc In the MT the verb is singular (“he said”), but the translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss and ancient versions in reading the plural (“they said”). |
| (0.38) | (1Sa 15:16) | 2 tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading the singular (“he said”) rather than the plural (“they said”) of the Kethib. |
| (0.38) | (1Sa 14:33) | 2 tc The translation follows the LXX reading ἐνταῦθα (entautha, “here”) for הֲלֹם (halom, “here”) rather than the MT’s הַיּוֹם (hayyom, “today”). |
| (0.38) | (1Sa 14:32) | 1 tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading “and they rushed greedily upon,” rather than the Kethib, “and they did.” |
| (0.38) | (1Sa 14:32) | 2 tc The translation reads with the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss הַשָּׁלָל (hashalal, “the spoil”) rather than following the Kethib reading, שָׁלָל (shalal, “spoil”). |
