1 Samuel 17:12

¹ Now David was the son of this Ephrathite named Jesse from Bethlehem ²  in Judah. He had eight sons, and in Saul’s days he was old and well advanced in years. ³ 

Ge 35:19; Ru 4:22; 1Sa 16:1,18; 1Sa 16:10,11; 1Sa 17:58; 1Ch 2:13-16; Ps 132:6; Mic 5:2; Mt 1:6; Mt 2:1,6; Lu 3:31,32

¹ tc Some mss of the LXX lack vv. 12-31.

² map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

³ tc The translation follows the Lucianic recension of the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta in reading “in years,” rather than MT “among men.”