PART V: APPENDIX
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TEXTUAL NOTES
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Abbreviations

  • Cons = consonantal
  • Heb = Hebrew, meaning the official, so-called Massoretic text.
  • Kethibh = The consonantal text of the Hebrew, without the vowels.
  • lit = literally.
  • Luc = Lucian, the recension of the Septuagint originating with Lucian, of Samosata, in the later part of the third century A D.
  • LXX = The Septuagint, or Greek translation of the Old Testament
  • O. L. = Old Latin, a Latin version made from the Septuagint in the second century A.D.
  • om. = omit, omits, or omitted
  • Pesh. = Peshitto, the Syriac translation of the Old Testament.
  • pl = plural
  • pron. = pronoun
  • Qere = The Hebrew text of the Old Testament as now vocalized.
  • R. V. = The Revised Version of the English Bible
  • Sam. = The Samaritan version of the Pentateuch
  • Seb. = Sebir = "it is to be supposed," a conjecture of the Massoretes.
  • Sym. = Symmachus, who made a Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament toward the close of the second century A.D.
  • Syr. = Syriac translation of the Old Testament known as the Peshitto
  • suf = suffix.
  • Syro-hexaplar = A literal translation of the Septuagint of the Hexapla into Syriac made by Paul of Tella in the early part of the seventh century A.D.
  • Targ. = Targum, the Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Old Testament
  • Theod. = Theodotion, who made a revision of the Septuagint on the basis of the Hebrew text in the latter part of the second century A.D.
  • V. = The Vulgate, the official Latin version of the Bible.
  • Vrs = Versions, the ancient translations of the Old Testament, viz., Greek, Syriac, Latin, Aramaic, and Ethiopic, Coptic, and Arabic.
  • Vs., Vss, Verse, Verses.
  • Vulg. = The Vulgate.

NOTES ON THE BOOK OF GENESIS
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  • 1:6d. So LXX; Heb. accidentally puts the phrase, "and so it was,"" at the end of vs. 7.
  • 1:11c. So sense requires; Heb. inserts "on the earth" after "containing their seed."
  • 1:20d. So LXX; Heb. om. "and so it was."
  • 1:26d. So Syr.; Heb. "all the earth."
  • 1:28d. So Vrs.; Heb. om. "the domestic animals" after "the birds of the air."
  • 4:1d. So by insertion of one letter accidentally dropped; Heb. "with the LORD."
  • 4:8b. So Vrs.; Heb. om. "let us go off into the country."
  • 4:22b. So by slight change; Heb. "a forger, every worker in bronze and iron."
  • 6:13d. So by insertion of one letter accidentally dropped, Heb. "with the earth."
  • 8:13a. So LXX; Heb. om. "of Noah's life" after "year."
  • 9:10d. So LXX; Heb. adds "in the matter of all the wild animals" after "the ark."
  • 9:26a, b. So by slight vowel change, Heb. "blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem."
  • 10:2d. So Heb. MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "Dodanim."
  • 10:14d. So sense requires, cf. Deut. 2:23; Amos 9:7, Jer. 47:4; Heb. puts the clause, "from whom the Philistines sprang," after "Casluhim."

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  • 12:2d. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "and be you a blessing."
  • 13:18b; 14:13c. So Vrs.; Heb. "the terebinths."
  • 14:5. So by insertion of one letter; Heb. "Ashteroth-Karnaim" and "Shaveh-Kirjathaim."
  • 14:6a. So Vrs.; Heb. "their mountain of Seir."
  • 14:24a. So LXX; Heb. "apart from me, only what my servants."
  • 15:9a. So context requires, cf. vs. 10; Heb. "procure for me."
  • 16:13. So by slight changes; Heb. "So she named the LORD who spoke to her, 'Thou art El-roi'; 'For,' said she, 'have I even hither seen after I have seen?'"
  • 18:10d. So with Vrs. and one vowel change; Heb. "Sarah was listening at the door of the tent, he being behind it."
  • 18:19a. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "I know him."
  • 18:22c, d. So original text, the Jewish scribes having transposed "Abraham" and "the LORD" to produce Heb.
  • 19:17b. So Vrs.; Heb. "he said."
  • 19:24d. So context requires; Heb. adds "from the LORD" after "fire."
  • 19:26b. So by change of one letter; Heb. "looked behind him."
  • 20:4c. So context and grammar require; Heb. inserts "a nation" before "clearly innocent."
  • 20:16d. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "and with all and you shall be exonerated."
  • 21:9d. So Vrs.; Heb. om. "with her son Isaac."
  • 21:20d. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "he became, growing up, an archer (?)."
  • 23.1d. So LXX; Heb. adds "the years of Sarah's life" after "years."
  • 23:13b. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "if really you are, please listen to me."
  • 24:22b. So Sam.; Heb. om. "and put it in her nose."
  • 24:32a. So by slight vowel change, Heb. "so the man came into the house."
  • 24:67c So grammar requires; Heb. adds "Sarah his mother" after "tent."
  • 26 7c. So by change of one letter; Heb. "should kill me."
  • 26:12b. So Vrs. and Kethibh; Qere "one hundred measures."
  • 27:5d. So LXX; Heb. "to bring in."
  • 27:19c. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "pray get up, sit down and eat.'*
  • 27:25a. So Vrs.: Heb. "some of my son's game."
  • 29:3a, 8a. So Vrs.; Heb. "all the flocks."
  • 29:27b. So Vrs.; Heb. "she will be given."
  • 30:20a. So context requires; Heb. writes a second "me."
  • 30:32a. So Vulg.; Heb. "I will go all through."
  • 31:13a. So LXX and Targums; Heb. "the God, Bethel."
  • 31:25c. So context requires, cf. vs. 49, Judg. 10:17; Heb. om. "Mizpeh" after "Mount."
  • 31:44c. So context requires; Heb. accidentally om. "the LORD."
  • 31:49a. So Sam.; Heb. "Mizpeh."
  • 32:22c. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "he crossed."
  • 32:23d. So Vrs.; Heb. om. "everything" before "that belonged to him."
  • 36:2d, 14b. So Vrs.; Heb. "the daughter of Zibeon."
  • 36:39b. So LXX; Heb. "Peo."
  • 36:39d. So Vrs.; Heb. "the daughter of Me-zahab."
  • 38:1b. So by insertion of one letter accidentally dropped; Heb. "went down."

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  • 38:21d. So Vrs.; Heb. "the men of her place."
  • 41:10c. So Sam.; Heb. "put me in custody."
  • 41:16b, c. So Vrs. and Kethibh; Qere "apart from me; God will answer."
  • 41:22a. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "all my people shall kiss."
  • 41:48a. So Vrs.; Heb. "of seven years which were in the land of Egypt."
  • 41:56c. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "all that was in them."
  • 44:4d. So LXX and similarly other Vrs.; Heb. om. "Why have you stolen my silver cup?"
  • 45:7c. So by deletion of one letter accidentally written twice; Heb. "to keep alive for a remarkable escape for you."
  • 45:19a. So by slight change; Heb. "also you have been commanded."
  • 46:23a. So context requires; Heb. "the sons of Dan."
  • 46:28b. So Vrs.; Heb. "to instruct before him."
  • 47:16b. So Vrs.; Heb. om. "food" after "I will give you."
  • 47:21b. So Vrs.; Heb. "the people themselves he transferred to the cities."
  • 48:1d. So LXX; Heb. om. "and came to see Jacob."
  • 49:4c. So by insertion of one letter accidentally dropped, Heb. "you defiled."
  • 49:6b. So LXX and Kethibh; Heb. Qere "my glory."
  • 49:10c. So by slight change; Heb. "until it comes to Shiloh (? )."
  • 49:19b, 20a. So by different division of letters and Vrs.; Heb. "the rear. From Asher."
  • 49:21b. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "beautiful words."
  • 49:24a. So LXX; Heb. "their bow remained.".
  • 49:25b. So Heb. MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "and with (?) the Almighty."
  • 49:26a. So by change of one letter; Heb. "the blessings of your father excel."
  • 49:26b. So LXX; Heb. "the blessings of the ancient . . . ?"
  • 50:25d. So Heb. MSS and Vrs.; Heb. om. "with you."

NOTES ON THE BOOK OF EXODUS
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  • 1:19c. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "they are alive."
  • 1:21b. So LXX and Targums; Heb. "he established."
  • 1:22c. So Vrs.; Heb. om. "to the Hebrews" after "that is born."
  • 2:15c. So Syr. and similarly LXX; Heb. "and settled in the land of Midian."
  • 2:25b. So by change of one letter; Heb. "God saw the children of Israel."
  • 4:11b. So by change of one letter; Heb. "or seeing (?)."
  • 4:18a. So Heb. MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "Jether."
  • 4:26c. So by change of one letter; Heb. "she spoke."
  • 5:5b. So context requires, cf. vss. 8 and 17; Heb. "are many."
  • 5:9b. So Vrs.; Heb. "that they may work at it (?)."
  • 5:13d. So Vrs.; Heb. "as when there was the straw."
  • 5:16d. So Symmachus and Kethibh; Qere "whereas she is at fault your people."
  • 8:9a. So by change of one letter; Heb. "glorify yourself over me."
  • 8:23a. So Vrs.; Heb. "a redemption."
  • 9:14b. So by slight change; Heb. "all my plagues to your heart."
  • 9:17a. So by slight change; Heb. "exalt yourself against."
  • 12:17a. So Vrs.; Heb. "the unleavened cakes."

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  • 12:21c. So Vrs.; Heb. "draw out."
  • 13:16b. So by slight change; Heb. "as bands (?)."
  • 14:7b. So by slight change; Heb. "picked and all the chariots."
  • 14:20b. So LXX; Heb. "and it lit up the night."
  • 14:25a. So Vrs.; Heb. "he removed their chariot wheels."
  • 17:9b. So by change of one letter; Heb. "go out to fight with Amalek; tomorrow I will take my stand."
  • 17:10b. So Vrs.; Heb. om. "and went out" before "to fight."
  • 18:11d. So by change of one letter; Heb. "in that they boiled up against them."
  • 19:12a. So Sam., cf. vs. 23; Heb. "you must mark off the people."
  • 19:18d. So Heb. MSS and LXX, cf. vs. 16; Heb. "the whole mountain trembled."
  • 20:18c. So Vrs. and Kethibh; Qere "the people saw."
  • 20:24c. So Vrs.; Heb. "at the whole sanctuary."
  • 21:8b. So Heb. MSS, Vrs., and Qere, Kethibh, "who did not acquire her."
  • 21:22d. So by slight change; Heb. "pay by the judges."
  • 23:7d. So LXX; Heb. "for I will not acquit."
  • 23:15d. Literally, "none may see my face," which is arbitrarily vocalized to read, "none may appear my face," and so everywhere else in the O. T.
  • 23:25b. So Vrs.; Heb. "he will bless."
  • 25:17a. "Propitiatory," i.e., the place where propitiation or atonement for sins was made.
  • 26:24b. So Vrs.; Heb. "and likewise complete."
  • 27:18b. So Sam.; Heb. "fifty in fifty."
  • 27:18d. So context requires; Heb. repeats from vs. 17 "but their pedestals bronze."
  • 30:23a. So LXX; Heb. "flowing (?) myrrh."
  • 30:32b. So LXX; Heb. om. "for yourselves."
  • 32:4a. So by change of one letter; Heb. "and fashioning it."
  • 32:29a. So LXX; Heb. "install yourselves."
  • 32:29b, c. So Vrs.; Heb. inserts "for" before "each," and "and" before "that he may bestow."
  • 33:14b. So by slight change; Heb. "and provide a home for you."
  • 34:19c. So Vrs.; Heb. "and all your live stock you must dedicate (?)."
  • 35:2b. So grammar requires; Heb. "on the seventh day."
  • 36:29a. So by insertion of one letter, cf. 26.24b Vrs.; Heb. "and likewise complete."
  • 39:25d. So context requires; Heb. repeats "among the pomegranates" after "all around the skirts of the robe."

NOTES ON THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS
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  • 1:16b. So Vrs.; Heb. "its (i.e., the crop's) feathers."
  • 1:17a. So by omission of one letter; Heb. "with its wings."
  • 2:11c. So Heb. MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "you must never burn."
  • 3:5b. So sense requires; Heb. inserts "which" after "for burnt-offerings."
  • 5:2d. context requires, cf. vss. 3 and 4; Heb. "he is unclean."
  • 5:15c, 18b; 6:6c. So LXX and Kethibh; Qere "your value."
  • 6:21c. So Syr., cf. 2:6; Heb. untranslatable.
  • 7:21b. So Heb. MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "any unclean detestable thing."

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  • 8:31c. So Vrs. and Kethibh; Qere "I commanded."
  • 12:4b, 5c. So by change of one letter; Heb. "in the blood of purification."
  • 14:31a. So Vrs.; Heb. accidentally repeats "such as she can afford" from vs. 30.
  • 18:10d. So by slight change; Heb. "your own nakedness."
  • 18:21b. So Vrs.; Heb. "to cause to pass through."
  • 21:8d. So Vrs.; Heb. "who consecrate you."
  • 22:2a. So by slight change; Heb. "to cut themselves off from."
  • 23:40a. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "fruit of beautiful trees."
  • 25 :6a. So by slight change; Heb. "the sabbath of the land shall serve you as food.' [sic]
  • 25:33b. So by slight change; Heb. "a house sold and a city."
  • 27:2c, and throughout the chapter. So LXX and Kethibh; Qere "your valuation."

NOTES ON THE BOOK OF NUMBERS
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  • 1:22c. So Heb. MSS and Vrs.; Heb. inserts "those that were numbered by him: after "family by family."
  • 1:44c. So Vrs.; Heb. om. "from each tribe" after "one."
  • 2:14d. So Heb. MSS, Vrs., and 1:14; Heb. here "Reuel."
  • 3:9c. So context requires; Heb. repeats "they are to be assigned."
  • 3:28a. So Heb. MSS and Vrs.; Heb. om. "those of them that were numbered."
  • 3:31d. So Vrs.; Heb. "its appurtenances."
  • 8:16a, 19a. So by slight vowel change; Heb. repeats "they have been assigned."
  • 8:24a. So Vrs.; Heb. om. "the law" after "this is."
  • 9:16c. So Vrs.; Heb. om. "by day" after "used to cover it."
  • 9:22a. So Heb. MSS and LXX; Heb. "or a month or days."
  • 10:36c. So by slight change; Heb. "the myriad clans."
  • 11:4b So by slight change; Heb. "had a craving, and the Israelites too wept again."
  • 13:30a. So by insertion of one letter; Heb. "silenced ( ? ) the people."
  • 14:14a. So LXX and similarly other Vrs.; Heb. "they will say to the inhabitants."
  • 14:29b. So Heb. MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "according to the complete count of you."
  • 16:1d. So one Heb. MS and Vrs.; Heb. "the sons of Reuben."
  • 16:37d. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "have become taboo."
  • 18:9b. So LXX; Heb. "from the fire."
  • 21:24d. So LXX; Heb. "for the frontier of the Ammonites was strong."
  • 21:28d. So by slight change, suggested by LXX; Heb. "the lords of the heights.
  • 21:30a. So LXX; Heb. "their fallow ground."
  • 21:30d. So Vulg.; Heb. om. "from" before "Heshbon."
  • 22:5b. So Heb. MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "as far as Medeba."
  • 22:32d. So Heb. MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "to the sons of his people."
  • 22:32d. So Vulg., cf. vs. 34; Heb. "is precipitate (?)"
  • 22:33c So Vrs.; Heb. "perhaps she had swerved."
  • 23:2c So Heb. MSS and LXX; Heb. inserts "Balak and Balaam" before "offered."
  • 23:23c. So by change of one letter; Heb. "it is at once declared."
  • 24:8d. So by insertion of one letter, suggested by Syr.; Heb. "their arrows."
  • 24:17d. So Sam.; Heb. "and broke down (?)."
  • 24:18b. So context and meter require; Heb. inserts "his enemies" after "Seir," taking it from vs. 19a.

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  • 24:19a. So sense requires; Heb. accidentally inserts "from" before "Jacob," and puts "his enemies" in vs. 18b.
  • 24:19d. So by omission of one letter Heb. "from a city."
  • 24:20d, 24d; So Vrs.; Heb. "he shall be unto destroying."
  • 25:5b. So LXX; Heb. "the judges of Israel."
  • 26:3a. So by change of one letter; Heb. "spoke."
  • 26:3d. So Syr.; Heb. inserts "saying" after "Jericho."
  • 26:8a. So sense requires; Heb. "the sons of."
  • 31:16b. So by slight change; Heb. "to furnish (?) treachery."
  • 32:17a. So Vrs.; Heb. "hastening (?) ahead of the Israelites."
  • 33:8a. So Heb. MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "from Pene-hahiroth."
  • 36:3a. So Vrs.; Heb. inserts "the sons of" after "one."

NOTES ON THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY
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  • 1:15a. So LXX; Heb. "the chiefs of your tribes, capable and experienced men."
  • 1:28a. So Heb. MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "taller."
  • 1:33c. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "to cause you to make out."
  • 1:35b. So LXX; Heb. inserts "this wicked generation" after "these men."
  • 1:44d. So Vrs.; Heb. "at Seir."
  • 2:37d. So LXX; Heb. "and wherever."
  • 3:12c. So Heb. MSS and Vrs.; Heb. om. "the bank of."
  • 3:18a. So by omission of one letter; Heb. "I charged you."
  • 4:5c. So by slight change, cf. vs. 14; Heb. "to observe thus."
  • 4:37b. So Vrs.; Heb. "his descendants."
  • 6:1d. So context requires; Heb. accidentally puts the phrase "a land abounding in milk and honey" at the end of vs. 3.
  • 6:8c; 11:18d. So by slight change; Heb. "as bands (?)."
  • 11:2a. So by slight changes; Heb. "and you know today that not your children."
  • 11:14a, 15a. So Vrs.; Heb. "I will give."
  • 11:24c. So sense requires; Heb. "and Lebanon."
  • 11:30a. So LXX; Heb. "west of the way of the sunset."
  • 11:30d. So Vrs.; Heb. "the terebinths."
  • 13:15d. So LXX; Heb. adds "and its cattle to the mouth of the sword" after "in it."
  • 14:13. So Heb. MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "the glebe, the kite, the buzzard in its several species."
  • 15:14c. So Vrs.; Heb. "what the LORD your God."
  • 17:5c. So LXX; Heb. inserts "the man or the woman" after "to your gates."
  • 18:5c. So Vrs., cf. 10:8; Heb. "to stand to minister in the name of the LORD."
  • 18:8d. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "concerning the fathers."
  • 21:12c. So by change of one letter; Heb. "she shall shave her head."
  • 22:21c. So by insertion of one letter accidentally dropped; Heb. om. "in" before "her father's house."
  • 24:5d. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "to give joy to."
  • 25:3d. So by omission of one letter; Heb. "should be disgraced."
  • 25:6a. So Sam.; Heb. om. "son."
  • 26:3c. So by change of one letter, Heb. "I make known."

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  • 26:3c. So LXX; Heb. "the LORD your God."
  • 26:14a. So LXX and Sam. MSS; Heb. "in my sorrow."
  • 27:4c. So Sam., cf. 119; Heb. "Ebal."
  • 28:22b. So Vrs. and Kethibh; Qere "with a sword."
  • 29:10c. So Vrs.; Heb. "your heads, your tribes."
  • 30:16a. So LXX; Heb. om. "if you heed the commands of the LORD your God."
  • 31:7b. So Heb. MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "you are to go with."
  • 31:16c. So by omission of one letter; Heb, "where they are going in the midst of it."
  • 31:20b. So LXX codex; Heb. om. "to give them, a land."
  • 32:5a. So sense requires; Heb. accidentally inserts "to him" after "has been the undoing."
  • 32:8d. So Vrs.; Heb. "the children of Israel."
  • 32:9a. So LXX; Heb. "for the LORD's apportionment."
  • 32:14d. So by change of one letter; Heb. "you drank in foam."
  • 32:14d. So Vrs.; Heb. om. "Jacob ate to the fill."
  • 32:31b, c. So by slight change; Heb. "our enemies being judges."
  • 32:35a. So Vrs.; Heb. "revenge is mine."
  • 32:43a. So sense requires; Heb. accidentally om. "among" before "the peoples."
  • 32:43d. So Vrs.; Heb. "his land, his people."
  • 33:2b. So Vrs.; Heb. "dawned on him."
  • 33:2c. So by slight change; Heb. "from holy myriads."
  • 33:2d. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "a fire of law (?)."
  • 33:3a. So LXX; Heb. "peoples."
  • 33:3b. So Syr.; Heb. "are in thy hand."
  • 33:7c. So Sam.; Heb. "with his hands he contends for himself."
  • 33:8a. So LXX; Heb. om. "give to Levi."
  • 33:13c. So by change of one letter; Heb. "the heavens, with dew."
  • 33:17b. So by rearrangement of letters; Heb. "together to the ends."
  • 33:26a. So Vrs.; Heb. "like the God, O Jeshurun."
  • 33:26c. So by change of one letter, cf. vs. 29b; Heb. "as the one to exalt himself."
  • 33:27d. So by rearrangement of letters; Heb. "and he said, 'Destroy!'"
  • 33:28d. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "and Israel lived."

NOTES ON THE BOOK OF JOSHUA
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  • 1:2d. So LXX; Heb. inserts "to the Israelites" after "them."
  • 1:4a. So by slight change, partly with LXX; Heb. "and this Lebanon."
  • 1:4b. So by slight change, cf. Deut. 11:24; Heb. "and as far as the Great River."
  • 1:7b. So LXX; Heb. "according to all the law which my servant Moses."
  • 1:15c. So LXX; Heb. inserts "and possess it" after "the land of your own."
  • 2:1a. So Vrs.; Heb. inserts "secretly" before "saying."
  • 2:17c, d. So LXX; Heb. inserts "we shall be released from this oath to you which you made us take" after "to her."
  • 3:16b. So Qere with addition of one letter accidentally dropped; Kethibh "at Adam."

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  • 4:10c. So LXX; Heb. inserts "just as Moses had commanded Joshua" after "the people to do."
  • 5:1b. So MSS, Qere, and Vrs.; Kethibh "until we had passed over."
  • 5:6b. So Heb. MSS, cf. Deut. 2:14; Heb. "the whole nation."
  • 5:11c, d, 12a, b. So LXX; Heb. "and parched grain that same day; and the manna ceased the day after they ate."
  • 6:2d. So sense requires; Heb. accidentally om. "take."
  • 6:7a. So Heb. MSS, Qere, and Vrs.; Kethibh "they said."
  • 6:18b. So LXX, cf. 7:21; Heb. "lest you cause to be doomed."
  • 6:24d. So Vrs.; Heb. inserts "of the house" after "treasury."
  • 7:17c. So Vrs.; Heb. "by individuals."
  • 8:13c. So Heb. MSS; Heb. "and Joshua went."
  • 8:14a, b. So LXX; Heb. "as soon as the king of Ai became aware of it, the men of the city hurried and rose early and went out to meet Israel in battle, he and all his people, to the appointed place in front of the Arabah."
  • 8:30c. So context requires; cf. Deut. 27:4; Heb. "Mount Ebal."
  • 9:4b. So Heb. MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "they pretended to be ambassadors."
  • 10:1a, 3a. So LXX and Judg. 1:5; Heb. "Adoni-zedek."
  • 10:2a. So Vrs.; Heb. "they were in great terror."
  • 12:4a. So LXX recensions, Heb. inserts "the territory of" before "Og."
  • 12:5d. So LXX recensions; Heb. om. "as far as" before "the frontier of Sihon."
  • 12:18b. So Vrs.; Heb. om. "Aphek" before "in Sharon."
  • 12:20a. So Vrs.; Heb. adds "Meron" after "Shimron."
  • 12:23d. So LXX; Heb. "in Gilgal."
  • 13:4a. So by change of one letter Heb. "and Mearah."
  • 13:9d. So LXX recensions; Heb. accidentally om. "from" before "Medeba."
  • 13:14c. So LXX, cf. vs. 33, Deut. 10:9; 18:2; Heb. inserts "the sacrifices of" before "the LORD."
  • 13:26d. So Vrs.; Heb. "Lidebir."
  • 15:4d. So LXX; Heb. "your southern frontier."
  • 15:9b. So Syr.; Heb. "to the cities of Mount Ephron."
  • 15:18a. So Vrs.; Heb. "she induced him."
  • 15:19a. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "a blessing."
  • 15:19b, c, d. So Kethibh and Vrs.; Qere "Gulloth."
  • 15:28b. So LXX; Heb. untranslatable.
  • 15:32b. So LXX, cf. Neh. 11:29; Heb. "Ain and Rimmon."
  • 15:36b. So context requires, cf. LXX; Heb. accidentally inserts "and Gederothaim" after "Gederah."
  • 15:47d. So Heb. MSS, Qere and Vrs.; Kethibh "the sea, the frontier."
  • 16:1a. So LXX; Heb. "the allotment for the Josephites went out."
  • 16:1c, d. So LXX codex; Heb. "the wilderness going up from Jericho through the highlands to Bethel."
  • 17:7d. So sense requires; Heb. inserts "the inhabitants of" before "En-tappuah."
  • 17:15d. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "for the highlands of Ephraim have hastened to you."
  • 18:4d. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "and then come."
  • 18:9c. So by slight vowel change and LXX; Heb. "then they came."
  • 18:17b. So by slight change, cf. 15:7; Heb. "to Geliloth."

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  • 18:18b. So LXX, cf. 15:6; Heb. "opposite the Arabah."
  • 18:28b. So LXX recensions; Heb. accidentally om. "-jearim" after "Kirjath."
  • 19:2d. LXX recensions; cf. 15:26; Heb. "Sheba."
  • 19:7a, b. So Vrs.; cf. I Chron. 4:32; Heb. "Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan."
  • 19:13d. So by slight change, suggested by LXX; Heb. "to Rimmon which continues (?) to Neah."
  • 19:29d. So by slight change, suggested by Vrs.; Heb. "from Hebel (?) to Achzib."
  • 19:30a. So LXX MSS, cf. Judg. 1:31; Heb. "Ummah."
  • 19:47a. So by slight change, suggested by LXX; Heb. "went out from them."
  • 19:50b. So Vrs., cf. Judg. 2:9; Heb. "Timnath-serah."
  • 21:11b. So LXX and 15:13; Heb. "Anok."
  • 21:25b. So by slight change, suggested by LXX codex and I Chron. 6:70; Heb. "Gath-rimmon."
  • 22:3b. So LXX; Heb. connects "down to this day" with "during this long time."
  • 22:16d. So Vrs.; Heb. inserts "today" after "in rebellion."
  • 22:19c. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "do not rebel against (?) us."
  • 22:34c. So Heb. MSS and Syr.; Heb. om. "Ed" after "altar."
  • 22:34b. So Vrs.; Heb. om. "they said" after "for."
  • 23:4. So by slight changes, suggested by Vulg.; Heb. "See, I have allotted to you as a heritage for your various tribes all these nations that are left, from the Jordan, and all the nations whom I exterminated, and the Great Western Sea."
  • 23:7c. So Vrs.; Heb. "nor cause to swear."
  • 24:5b. So Vrs.; Heb. "as I did."
  • 24:19a. So sense requires; Heb. om. "and foreign gods as well."
  • 24:30a. So by transposition of two letters, and Judg. 2:9; Heb. "Timnath-serah."
  • 24:32c. So Vrs.; Heb. "and they belonged."

NOTES ON THE BOOK OF JUDGES
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  • 1:14a. So Vrs.; Heb. "she induced him."
  • 1:15a. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "a blessing."
  • 1:15b, c, d. So Kethibh and Arabic, cf. Josh. 15:19 Vrs.; Qere "Gulloth."
  • 1:16a. So Vrs.; Heb. om. "Hobab."
  • 1:16d. So with addition of letters accidentally dropped, suggested by Vrs.; Heb. "with the people."
  • 1:19c. So Heb. MSS and Vrs., Heb. om. "he was able" after "not."
  • 1:36a. So context requires, cf. Vrs.; Heb. "of the Amorites."
  • 2:3c. So Vrs.; Heb. "become your sides."
  • 2:22c. So Heb. MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "by walking in them."
  • 3:2a. So Vrs.; Heb. "that succeeding Israelites might know."
  • 3:3b. So by change of one letter; Heb. "and the Hivvites."
  • 3:7d. So Heb. MSS and Vulg.; Heb. "and Asherahs."
  • 3:22d. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "he went out."
  • 5:4c. So Vrs.; Heb. "the heavens also dripped."
  • 5:5a. So Kethibh and Vrs.; Qere "the mountains streamed."
  • 5:8a. So by slight changes; Heb. "he chooses new gods, then was there war (?) at the gates."
  • 5:13d. So LXX recensions; Heb. "went down for me."

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  • 5:14a. So Vrs.; Heb. "from Ephraim their root is in Amalek."
  • 5:15a, b. So LXX codex; Heb. "my princes in Issachar were with Deborah, and Issachar."
  • 5:21d. So by slight changes; Heb. "tread down, my soul, the might."
  • 5:29a. So Vrs.; Heb. "the wisest of her princesses reply."
  • 5:30d. So LXX; Heb. "for the necks of the booty."
  • 5:31b. So Vrs.; Heb. "his friends."
  • 6:4d. So by change of one letter; Heb. "nothing in Israel to live on, neither sheep, nor oxen, nor asses."
  • 6:25b, 26c, 28c. So by slight change, suggested by Vrs.; Heb. "the second bull."
  • 7:1c, d. So Vulg. and Syr. in part; Heb. "was north of him, from Gibeah-moreh."
  • 7:3b. So by slight change; Heb. "and must depart (?) from Mount Gilead."
  • 7:6a. So Vrs.; Heb. "with their hands to their mouths."
  • 7:8a. So by change of one letter; Heb. "the people took provisions."
  • 7:20d. So context requires, cf. vs. 18; Heb. inserts "a sword" before "for the LORD."
  • 7:22b. So Vrs.; Heb. inserts "and" before "all through the camp."
  • 8:16c. So Vrs.; Heb. "he taught."
  • 9:6c. So by slight change; Heb. "the terebinth set up."
  • 9:9b. So Vrs.; Heb. "which God and men honor in me."
  • 9:26a, 28a, 30b, 31b, 35a. So Kethibh and Vrs.; Qere "Ebed."
  • 9:28c. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "serve," imperative.
  • 9:29c. So LXX; Heb. "and he said."
  • 9:29d. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "make great your army."
  • 9:31b. So context requires, cf. vs. 41; Heb. "at Tormah."
  • 9:44a. So Vrs.; Heb. "and the companies."
  • 9:48a. So Vrs.; Heb. "axes."
  • 10:4b. So Vrs.; Heb. "possessed thirty saddle-asses."
  • 10:8b. So LXX MSS; rfeb. inserts "in that year" after "Israelites."
  • 10:10c. So Heb. MSS and Vrs.; Heb. inserts "and" before "for."
  • 10:12a. So LXX; Heb. "Maonites."
  • 10:18a. So by slight change; Heb. "the princes of Gilead."
  • 11:20a. So Vrs.; Heb. "but Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through."
  • 11:24a. So by omission of one letter; Heb. "drives you out."
  • 11:34d. So Vrs.; Heb. "besides him."
  • 11:37c. So by omission of one letter; Heb. "and go down unto the mountains.
  • 12:2b, c, d. So by slight changes, in part with LXX; Heb. "I and my people had a severe quarrel with the Ammonites; and I called you, but you would not save me from their power."
  • 12:4d. So LXX MSS, cf. Syro-hexaplar; Heb. inserts "for they said, 'Fugitives of Ephraim are you Gileadites in the midst of Ephraim, in the midst of Manasseh.' after "Ephraim."
  • 12:7d. So Vrs.; Heb. "in the cities of Gilead."
  • 13:19c. So Vrs.; Heb., "and performing wonders."
  • 14:15a. So Vrs.; Heb. "on the seventh day."
  • 14:15d. So Heb. MSS and Targum; Heb. "is it not?"
  • 14:18a. So by slight change; Heb. "before the sun (?) set."
  • 15:6d. So Heb. MSS and Vrs.; Heb. om. "house."

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  • 15:16b. So Kethibh and LXX; Qere "a heap, two heaps."
  • 16:2a. So Vrs.; Heb. om. "were told."
  • 16:13d, 14a. So Vrs. suggests, Heb. om. "and beat them in with the pin, I should become weak, and be like any other man.' So, when he was asleep, Delilah took the seven locks of his head."
  • 16:14d. So sense and grammar require; Heb. inserts "the pin" before "the loom."
  • 16:18b. So Qere; Kethibh "he has told her."
  • 16:19c. So Kethibh represented by Vrs.; Qere "she began to afflict him."
  • 17:2c. So sense and grammar require; Heb. accidentally puts the phrase "so now I return it to you" at the end of vs. 3.
  • 17:10d. So Vulg.; Heb. inserts "and the Levite went away" after "your living."
  • 18:7c. So by slight change, cf. vs. 10; Heb. "there was no one to humiliate them in anything."
  • 18:7c. So LXX codex; Heb. inserts "possessing authority" after "in the earth."
  • 18:7d, 28b. So Vrs.; Heb. "with mankind."
  • 18:17d. So context requires; Heb. inserts "the priest" to accompany "the six hundred men."
  • 18:18a. So Vrs.; Heb. "the carved image of the ephod."
  • 18:30c. So Vrs.; Heb. "Manasseh" with the letter n written above the line.
  • 18:30d. So by change of one letter; Heb. "the land was carried off."
  • 19:2a. So by slight change, suggested by Vrs.; Heb. "played the harlot against him."
  • 19:6a. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "so the two of them sat down and ate."
  • 19:8c. So by slight change, suggested by LXX MSS; Heb. " 'and wait until afternoon."
  • 19:18c. So LXX, Heb. "I am now on my way to the temple of the LORD."
  • 19:19c. So Heb. MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "your maidservants."
  • 19:30. So doublet in LXX MSS; Heb. "and it would come to pass that that anyone who saw it would say, 'Such a thing as this has not happened nor been seen since the day that the Israelites came up out of the land of Egypt until this day. Consider it, take counsel, and speak out.'"
  • 20:9d. So LXX; Heb. om. "we will march."
  • 20:10c. So LXX recensions; Heb. "to requite for their coming to Gibeah."
  • 20:12b. So Vrs.; Heb. "the tribes of Benjamin."
  • 20:15d, 16a. So Vulg. and other Vrs. in part; Heb. inserts "they mustered seven hundred picked men. Out of all this army there were seven hundred picked men" before "that were left-handed."
  • 20:23a. So Vrs.; Heb. om. "to Bethel" after "went up."
  • 20:38c. So Vrs.; Heb. inserts "make great (?)" before "that they should send up."
  • 20:39a. So by omission of one letter, Heb. "the Israelites wheeled round."
  • 20:42c. So sense requires; Heb. "from the cities."
  • 20:43. So by slight changes, in part with LXX; Heb. "they surrounded the Benjaminites, they pursued (?) them; at a resting-place they overtook (?) them as far as a point opposite Gibeah toward the east."
  • 20:48b. So Heb. MSS; Heb. "the entire city."
  • 21:11d. So Vrs.; Heb. om. "'but you are to spare the virgins.' They did so."
  • 21:20a. So Qere; Kethibh "he instructed."

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  • 21:22d. So by insertion of one letter; Heb. "now you would be doing wrong."
  • 21:24a. So grammar requires; Heb. inserts "from" before "there."

NOTES ON THE BOOK OF RUTH
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  • 1:21b. So Vrs.; Heb. "has testified against me."
  • 1:22b. So sense requires; Heb. inserts "who returned" after "accompanied by her daughter-in-law."
  • 2:7d. So by slight changes, suggested by Vrs.; Heb. "resting only a little at home."
  • 2:18b. So Kethibh, Heb. MSS, and Vrs.; Qere "her mother-in-law saw."
  • 2:23c. So Kethibh, Heb. MSS, and Vulg.; Qere "and she lived with."
  • 3:5b. So Kethibh; Qere inserts "to me" after "you say."
  • 3:15c. So Heb. MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "he went."
  • 3:17c. So Kethibh; Qere inserts "to me" after "said he."
  • 4:5c. So Vrs.;, Heb. "from Ruth."
  • 4:20d. So Heb. MSS; Heb. "Salmah."

NOTES ON THE FIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL
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  • 1:1a. Heb. reads "Ramathaim" a dual form that occurs only here. This is probably due to an error in copying. The reading "Zuphite" is based upon LXX; Heb. is ungrammatical.
  • 1:1b. The genealogy is found twice besides, in I Chron. 6:11—13 and vss. 18—20. All agree on the first three names, and all differ on the last three names.
  • 1:3b. "Eli" is supplied from LXX and is demanded by the context. Heb. has simply, "the two sons of Eli."
  • 1:5. "However" follows LXX; Heb. makes no sense.
  • 1:6. "Misfortune" is gained by the correction of one letter. Cf. Lucian's "to set at naught." Heb. signifies "to cause to thunder," and makes no sense here.
  • 1:7. "she did," following Syr. and Vulg. Heb. "he did." "They went up," so Vulg.; Heb. "she went up."
  • 1:9. "They had eaten," so LXX; Heb. "after she had eaten," but ungrammatical. Heb. adds "and after drinking," but construction entirely anomalous, and probably a later gloss.
  • 1:10. "Very wretched," Heb. "bitter of mind."
  • 1:12. "It happened," Heb. "and it shall be" is ungrammatical.
  • 1:15. "Unfortunate," Heb. "hard of spirit" in the sense of obstinate; LXX, "hard of day," i.e., unfortunate.
  • 1:18. "To the sacrificial chamber," so LXX; Heb. om. "sad," so LXX, lit. "fell," i.e., be sad; Heb. "was no more."
  • 1:20. "And Hannah conceived," following the logical order of LXX; Heb. misplaced.
  • 1:23. "Your," so LXX and Syr.; Heb. "his."
  • 1:24. "Three-year-old," so LXX and Syr.; Heb. "three bulls" contrary to context and corrupted by a wrong word division. "Five pecks," Heb. "ephah." "She came," so LXX, Heb. "she brought." "Accompanied by the child," so LXX; Heb. inanely "the boy was a boy."
  • 1:28. "Lives," so LXX, Targum and Syr.; Heb. "shall be." "Set apart," lit. "asked."

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  • 2:1. "Strength," lit. "horn." "My god," so some Vrs., Heb. "the LORD."
  • 2:2b. "Righteous," so some Vrs.; Heb. "rock."
  • 2:3. "By him," following the Qere. The Kethibh "not" makes no suitable sense here.
  • 2:5. "To toil" is gained by supplying one letter. Heb. is meaningless as it stands.
  • 2:8b. The last two lines of the vs. are not found in LXX.
  • 2:10. "Against them," lit. "against him." "Power," lit. "horn," cf. vs. 1.
  • 2:11. So LXX; clause a in Heb. reads: "And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house," which connects with Heb. of 1:28b.
  • 2:13. Heb. om. "from" owing to a wrong division of words. Heb. also has a faulty vs. division. The rendering of clause a is supported by some Vrs., and a few Heb. MSS. "Three-pronged fork," Heb. requires a slight adjustment of letters to be grammatical.
  • 2:14. "For himself," so some Vrs. Heb. reads: "with it." "To sacrifice to the LORD," so LXX; Heb. merely has "came there."
  • 2:16. "Should the man," etc., Heb. states it as a past fact, but the context demands the foregoing rendering. "No," so 17 MSS Qere and LXX; Kethibh reads: "to him."
  • 2:18. "Linen garment," lit. "ephod."
  • 2:20. "Reward," so LXX; Heb. has "put," which appears to be due to a copyist's omission of a letter still expressed by LXX. "Dedicated," following the suggestion of 1:28. Heb. cannot be construed as it stands. "Their place," so Syr.; Heb. has "his."
  • 2:21. "And visited," so LXX, Heb. is unidiomatic and obviously wrong.
  • 2:22. "All Israel," the word "all" is not in LXX.
  • 2:23b. At end of vs. Heb. adds "these," but ungrammatically and probably due to dittography.
  • 2:27. "I revealed myself," etc.; Heb. makes this an interrogative sentence calling for a negative answer, which is unintelligible at this point. This is probably an error and arose from dittography. "Subject to," so LXX, omitted in Heb.
  • 2:29. "Look," so LXX; Heb. "kick" brought about by a slight change in the order of letters. "Eyeing enviously," so LXX; Heb. cannot be construed as it stands. "In my presence," so LXX; Heb. untenable as it stands.
  • 2:31. "Strength," lit. "arm." "Eyeing enviously," following the suggestion of vs. 29; Heb. is untranslatable. "I will bestow," gained by the correction of one letter. Heb. has third person, which is ambiguous and less suitable, since the LORD is speaking.
  • 2:33. "To weep out his eyes" . . . "his heart," so LXX; Heb. has "thy." "By the sword of," so LXX; Heb. is unintelligible as it stands.
  • 3:4. "Samuel! Samuel!" so LXX; Heb. "to Samuel"; so also in vs. 6.
  • 3:13. "And you shall tell," Heb. "and I will tell," but the context greatly favors the second person. "Were blaspheming God," so LXX; Heb. "to them," which is unintelligible and due to the dropping of one letter.
  • 3:15. "Then he rose early in the morning," so LXX; Heb. om. probably by copyist's error.
  • 3:21. Last sentence of vs. is from LXX; Heb. reads: "In Shiloh by the word of the LORD."
  • 4:1b. First clause is from LXX, and required by context. Heb. om.

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  • 4:2. "Became general," lit. "inclined," i.e., extended, so LXX; Heb. "forsake" is impossible.
  • 4:3b. "Let us take," so LXX; Heb. adds "unto us."
  • 4:7. "have come to them," so LXX, Heb. om. "to them," probably by dittography.
  • 4:8. "and plague"; Heb. has "in the desert," but this is against the tradition. The omission of one letter gives the foregoing reading.
  • 4:10. "Every man for himself," lit. "man to his tent."
  • 4:13. "beside the gate anxiously watching the road," so LXX; Heb. "by the side of the road watching," but this is inconsistent
  • 4:16. "camp," so LXX; Heb. "battle line."
  • 4:18. "Through the gate opening." Text is conflate, another alternative "beside the gate."
  • 4:19. "About to become a mother"; Heb. is unintelligible. One letter supplied gives the foregoing reading.
  • 4:21. "They called"; Heb. "she called," but the context distinctly implies that the woman died in childbirth. Either one letter has dropped off the end or the form has been corrected to conform to vs. 22.
  • 5:2. "Ark of God," LXX has "ark of the Lord," which may be correct. Cf . vs. 3.
  • 5:3. "And went to the house of Dagon, they looked," so LXX; Heb. om. The clause is required, "fallen face downward," lit. "falling upon his face," so LXX; Heb. makes no sense. One letter supplied gives LXX.
  • 5:4. "lifted up," so LXX; Heb. "take." The confusion of one letter accounts for Heb. "His body was left," so Vrs. Heb. "Only Dagon was left," which makes no sense.
  • 5:5b. "But leap over it," so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 5:10. "To us, to slay us and our," lit. "to me, to slay me and my," used of the personified city, similarly vs. 11.
  • 6:4. "Upon you," a correction required by the context. Heb. "upon all of them," this awkward phrase is probably due to repetition of one letter in the wrong place.
  • 6:13b. "to meet it," so LXX; Heb. "to see it." Heb. due to omission of one letter.
  • 6:18b. "A witness is the great stone," fol. LXX and Targum; Heb. "even unto the meadow," which makes no sense. Heb. confused one letter and then put in wrong vowels of first word.
  • 6:19. The first sentence is from LXX; Heb. om. Heb. is thus without any real reason for the slaughter, since "to look at" does not mean "to look into." "Therefore he smote among them," so LXX; Heb. repeats "he smote among the people."
  • 7 :2b. "sought after," fol. the Vrs., which vary but have the general sense of turning attention to. Heb. "mourn," found only here in this form.
  • 7:3. "Ashtartes," Heb. "Ashtaroth," the Phoenician Ashtarte is nearer Heb. than the original Ishtar, and used here of local goddesses of fertility.
  • 7:12. "Yeshana," so some Vrs.; cf. II Chron. 13:19; Heb. "Shen." "Ebenezer," i.e. "stone of help."
  • 8:8. "to me," so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 8:12. "hundreds," so some Vrs.; Heb. has "fifties."
  • 8:16. "cattle," so LXX; Heb. has "young men," out of place here, and already mentioned in vs. 11 .
  • 8:21. "presence," lit. "ears of."

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  • 9:4. "they" throughout the vs., so some Vrs.; Heb. sometimes has singular.
  • 9:8. "And you shall give," so LXX; Heb. "I will give."
  • 9:12. "He has just now come," so LXX; Heb. "make haste for he has come to the city today."
  • 9:15. "had communicated," etc., lit. "uncovered the ear."
  • 9 20. "for your father's house," so LXX; Heb. adds "all."
  • 9:24. "The fat tail," Heb. is untranslatable. The change of one letter gives the above. Cf. Exod. 29:22. "Samuel" is not in the text but is required.
  • 9:24. "before," a correction. Heb. is untranslatable and the Vrs. give no help.
  • 9:25. "Spread a bed for Saul," so LXX; Heb. "and he spoke with Saul," but very abrupt, and LXX is needed to complete context. "And he retired," so LXX; Heb. "and they rose up early," which is unsuitable to context. Heb. has confused two letters easily interchanged in the old Hebrew character. "He and Samuel," so LXX; Heb. adds "the two of them."
  • 10:1b. "Hath not the LORD," etc., as far as "sign," so LXX; Heb. om., probably by copyist's error.
  • 10:5. "post," so Vrs.; Heb. has pl.
  • 10:7. "Do as occasion serves," lit. "what your hand finds."
  • 10:13. "went home," Heb. and LXX point to "high place," but the verb and context are against it. The foregoing reading involves the necessary change of only one letter.
  • 10:19. "no," so Vrs.; Heb. "to him," due probably to same pronunciation.
  • 10:21. "And he caused the clan of the Mitrites to approach man by man," so LXX, as the context requires. Heb. om.
  • 10:22. "Did the man come hither"? so LXX, as context requires. Heb. awkwardly, "Has there yet a man come thither?"
  • 10:27b. "Now it happened after about a month," so LXX; Heb. "And he was like one keeping silent," very dubious. Vrs. suitably make the clause the beginning of chapter 11 . Heb. is probably due to an interchange of the easily confused Hebrew letters r and d.
  • 11:6. "Of the LORD," so some Vrs.; Heb. "of God."
  • 11:9. "He said," so LXX; Heb. "they said."
  • 11:12. "not," so some Vrs. Heb. om.
  • 11:13. "And Saul said"; LXX has "Samuel."
  • 11:15. "Samuel anointed Saul," so LXX; Heb. "and they made Saul king." "Samuel and all the men," etc., so LXX; Heb. "Saul."
  • 12:3. "Messiah," i.e., anointed one, which applied to all kings. "Or a pair of sandals? Testify against me," so LXX, cf . Eccles. 46:9, Heb. "that I might hide my eyes in it." The original difference was probably due to the corruption of one letter in Heb.
  • 12:5. "They said," so Vrs.; Heb. "he said."
  • 12:6. "Witness," so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 12:7. "appointed," this is a correction, Heb. "made," but it gives no suitable sense.
  • 12:7. "And let me declare to you," so LXX; Heb. om. "And the Egyptians afflicted them, then," so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 12:8. "And he made them dwell," so Vrs.; Heb. "they made them," etc., which is contrary to the tradition of Moses and Aaron.
  • 12:11. "Barak," so some Vrs.; Heb. "Bedan," probably a corrupt form of Barak.

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  • 12:14b. "Well," is not stated but implicit in the sentence.
  • 12:15. "And your king to destroy you," so LXX; Heb. "and your fathers," obviously wrong.
  • 13:1. Heb. reads: "Saul was a year old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years over Israel." The figures are impossible and the entire statement is lacking in LXX.
  • 13:2. "His son," so Syr.; Heb. om. but context demands it.
  • 13:3. "in Gibeah," so LXX and Targum; Heb. "Geba," due to loss of one letter, cf. 10:5, 14:16. "The Hebrews have revolted," so LXX; Heb. "Let the Hebrews hear," and this is transposed so that it is not what the Philistines heard, but what Saul was telling the Hebrews by the trumpet blast. LXX has every mark of originality.
  • 13:5. "Three thousand," so LXX and Syr.; Heb. "thirty thousand."
  • 13:7. "They also crossed the fords of the Jordan," so LXX; Heb. "and the Hebrews crossed," etc. The use of "Hebrews" by Israelites is opposed to Hebrew usage. "Were on the point of desertion," lit. "trembled from after him," so Luc.; Heb. om. "from."
  • 13.8. "Saul had said," so LXX and Targum; Heb. om.
  • 13:12. "Have appeased the LORD," lit. "have made pleasant the face of the LORD."
  • 13:15. "And proceeded on his way, and the rest of the people went up after Saul to meet with the men of war, and they went from," so LXX, Heb. om. probably by accident.
  • 13:16. "Gibeah," so LXX, Heb. "Geba."
  • 13:18. "The hill," so LXX, Heb. "the border."
  • 13:21. So in part with LXX; Heb. is obscure.
  • 14:2. "threshing floor," so Syr.; Heb. "Migron," but the location is unsuitable.
  • 14:3. "in charge of," lit. "lifting up."
  • 14:4. "Bozez," i.e., Shining. "Seneh," i.e., Thorny.
  • 14:6. "Philistines" is only implicit in the text.
  • 14.7. So LXX, Heb., awkwardly, "Do all that is in your heart; incline, behold, I am with you according to your heart." Copyist's misreading of two letters and omission of a word account for the differences.
  • 14:13. "turned back," so LXX; Heb. om., but it is necessary to the context. "wounded" is only implicit in text.
  • 14:14b. Heb. is untranslatable. "Part from the post," etc., follows the clue of LXX.
  • 14:16. "camp," so LXX; Heb. "tumult." "melted away hither and thither," so LXX; Heb. untranslatable.
  • 14:18. "the ephod," so LXX; twice Heb. has "the ark of God," which is obviously wrong.
  • 14:19. "While Saul was yet speaking," requires a slight change of vowels.
  • 14:21. "even these turned," so LXX and Syr.; Heb. has different vowels and punctuation, which make it awkward and ungrammatical.
  • 14:23. "Beth-horon," so some MSS of LXX; Heb. "Bethaven." "and all the people" etc., to end of sentence, so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 14:24. "But Saul committed a grave error that day," so LXX; Heb. "And the men of Israel were distressed (?)."
  • 14:25. "Now there was comb honey in the field," so LXX; Heb. is untranslatable.

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  • 14:26. "The bees had just flown away," so LXX; Heb. "and behold a stream (?) of honey."
  • 14:27. "lightened," so some Vrs.; Heb. "saw."
  • 14:29. "how I have been refreshed," lit. "my eyes have been lightened."
  • 14:30. So LXX; Heb. introduces a negative that makes a disjointed sentence, with a premise without a conclusion, and a conclusion without the premises.
  • 14:33. "hither," so LXX; Heb. "today," which is meaningless and due to confusion of one letter in Heb.
  • 14:34. "the flesh," implicit in the text. "Each what was in his hand," so LXX; Heb. "each his oxen his hand."
  • 14:38. "chiefs," lit. "corners."
  • 14:41. So LXX thus giving the complete formula of casting the lot, found only here, Heb. omitted an entire clause, probably owing to repetition of a word.
  • 14:42. "He whom the LORD," etc. as far as "son," so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 14:47. "and Beth-rehob," so LXX; Heb. om. "was successful," lit. "was delivered," Heb. "acted impiously," either deliberately changed by a scribe opposed to Saul, or a copyist's error.
  • 14:49. "Ishbaal," so many MSS of LXX. Cf. I Chron., 8:33; Heb. "Ishvi," i.e., "man of Yahweh," to avoid the later offensive word "Baal."
  • 15:1. "Words of the LORD," so LXX; Heb. "to the voice of the words of," etc.
  • 15:3. "utterly destroy," lit. "put under the ban."
  • 15:6. "to the' Israelites," so LXX; Heb. adds "all."
  • 15:18. "you have consumed them," so some Vrs.; Heb. untranslatable.
  • 15:23. "and the iniquity of the teraphim is arrogance," so in general Symmachus; Heb. is unintelligible.
  • 15:32. "trembling" so LXX; Heb. "delicately (?)," difference due to vowels. "Death is bitter," so LXX; Heb. "the bitterness of death has turned." Difference probably due to dittography.
  • 16:5. "Rejoice with me today," so LXX, Heb. "come with me to the sacrifice."
  • 16:7. "The LORD does not see as," so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 16:15. "LORD," so some Vrs.; Heb. "God."
  • 16:16. So LXX; Heb. "Let our lord, now, command, thy servants are before you, let them seek," etc. "evil spirit," so LXX; Heb. adds "from God."
  • 16:20. "ten loaves," based on 17:17; Heb. "an ass of bread."
  • 16:23. "evil spirit," so Vrs., Heb. om. "evil." "ten feet," Heb. "six cubits and a span."
  • 17:5. "two hundred pounds," Heb. "five thousand shekels."
  • 17:7. "twenty-four pounds," Heb. "six hundred shekels."
  • 17:12—31 are not found in LXX.
  • 17:12. "in years," so Vrs.; Heb. "going among men."
  • 17:31. "and they took him and brought him before Saul," so Luc.; Heb. "and he took him."
  • 17:32. "my lord's courage," so LXX; Heb. "let no man's courage."
  • 17:38. "and equipped him with a coat of mail," not in LXX.
  • 17:39. "he girded David," so LXX.
  • 17:40. "in his bag," so LXX; Heb. "in the shepherd's bag which he had."
  • 17:41. "your dead body and the dead of the camp," so LXX; Heb. "the dead of the camp."

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  • 17:50. This vs. not in LXX.
  • 17:51. "and drew it out of its sheath" is not in LXX.
  • 18:3. "with David," text has "and David," but context requires "with."
  • 18:6. So LXX; Heb. is in disorder, although adapted to apply to Saul.
  • 18:8. "And what can he have more but the kingdom" is not in LXX.
  • 18:11. "listed up," so some Vrs.; Kethibh permits this but not Qerc.
  • 18:12. "because the LORD," etc., to end, not in LXX.
  • 18.16. "before the people," so LXX; Heb. "before them."
  • 18:18. "What are my kinsfolk," so LXX; Heb. inserts "my life."
  • 18:21b. "you shall this day be my son-in-law," etc., to end, is not in LXX. "with two," this cannot mean "a second time" (RV) and is very dubious.
  • 18:26. "and the days had not expired," not in LXX.
  • 18:27. "one hundred," so LXX; Heb. "two hundred." "gave them in full," so LXX; some Vrs.; Heb. "they gave."
  • 18:28. "all Israel loved him," so LXX; Heb. "Michal."
  • 18:30. "was very highly esteemed," lit. "was very precious."
  • 19:11. "and that night," so LXX; Heb. joins this to vs. 10, but ungrammatically.
  • 19:13. "the household god," Heb. "teraphim."
  • 19:20. "they saw," so Vrs., Heb. "he saw." "an assemblage," so LXX; Heb. probably only a corrupt form of LXX.
  • 19:22. "Then Saul's anger was aroused," so LXX; Heb. om. "the cistern of the threshing floor which is on the bare height," so LXX; Heb. "the great cistern that is in Seru," but ungrammatical and probably a corruption, "and they said," so context requires, Heb. "he said."
  • 19:23. "from there," so LXX; Heb. "there."
  • 20:3. "replied," so some Vrs.; Heb. "say."
  • 20:4. "desire," so some Vrs.; Heb. "say."
  • 20:6. "until evening," so LXX and Luc.; Heb. adds "the third," but ungrammatically.
  • 20:12. "a witness" so Syr.; Heb. om.
  • 20:13. "to do you harm," the verb is lacking in the text and has probably fallen out. The clause after the adjuration is according to usage stated, not as a part of the oath, but factatively, and so has no negative.
  • 20.16. "the name of Jonathan shall not be cut off from," so LXX; Heb. "and Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David," which throws both vss. 15 and 16 into disorder.
  • 20:17. "And Jonathan took oath again to David," so LXX; Heb. "and Jonathan made David swear again."
  • 20:19. "be missed," so LXX; Heb. "go down," which gives no sense, "that stone heap," so LXX; Heb. untranslatable.
  • 20:25. "Jonathan sat opposite," so LXX and Luc.; Heb. "stood," one letter has fallen out of Heb.
  • 20:26. "been cleansed," so LXX and Kethibh. Qere is a mere repetition, "clean."
  • 20:29. "and my brothers have" so LXX and Luc.; Heb. "and he my brother has."
  • 20:30. "renegade girl," so LXX; Heb. very doubtful and uncertain, probably due to corruption of one letter.
  • 21:6. "weapons be holy," this is the sense required but Heb. is ungrammatical.
  • 21:7. "holy bread," bread is om. in text.

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  • 21:13. "he drummed," so LXX; Heb. "scratched."
  • 22:3. "dwell," so Syr. Vulg.; Heb. "go forth," incongruously.
  • 22:4. "left them," so Vrs. and Kethibh. Qere, "brought them."
  • 22:5. "Mizpeh," so Syr.; Heb. "stronghold," which is wrong geographically; difference due to change in two letters.
  • 22:6. "on the high place," so LXX; Heb. "Ramah."
  • 22:8. "sympathizes," so LXX; Heb. "is sick." "as an enemy," so LXX; Heb. "to be in want," due to change of one letter.
  • 22:10. "God," so some Vrs.; Heb. "the LORD."
  • 22:13. "as an enemy," cf. vs. 8 note.
  • 22:14. "commander," so some Vrs.; Heb. "turned aside," incongruously, due to different letters having approximately the same sound.
  • 22:18. "the ephod," so LXX; Heb. has "linen ephod."
  • 22:22. "guilty," so some Vrs.; Heb., untranslatable, owing to copyist's change of one letter.
  • 22:23. The pronouns "my" and "your" have evidently changed places in the text.
  • 23:7. "sold," so LXX; Heb. "alienated" (!).
  • 23:14. "LORD," so LXX; Heb. "God."
  • 23:23. "with evidence," very doubtful and harsh, lit. "according to being established." This clause after "know and see" is not in LXX.
  • 23:25. "which is in," so LXX; Heb. "and dwelt."
  • 24:7. "persuaded," so LXX; Heb. "tore," unsuitably.
  • 24:11. "gave you," text adds "today," probably an error.
  • 24:18. "and you have shown me exceptional kindness," this involves the addition of one letter; Heb. "you have told," which is very weak and questionable.
  • 24:19. "safely," lit. "in a good way."
  • 25:1b. "Maon," so LXX; Heb. "Paran."
  • 25:6. "to my brother," following suggestion of Vulg.; Heb. makes no sense.
  • 25:18. "three and a third bushels," Heb. "five measures."
  • 25:20. "defile," lit. "secret, hidden place."
  • 25:21. "to David," so LXX; Heb. "to the enemies of," which entirely misses the point.
  • 25:23. "on her face before David," Heb. unidiomatic.
  • 26:4. "straight on," lit. "unto his front," gained by correcting one letter, Heb. makes no sense.
  • 26:8. "his own spear," gained by making slight change in word division, Heb. "spear and in earth."
  • 26:14. "that calls," so LXX; Heb. adds "to the king."
  • 26:16. "worthy of death," lit. "sons of death."
  • 26:20. "my life," so LXX; Heb. "a flea."
  • 26:23. "my hand," so some Vrs.; Heb. om. "my."
  • 27:7. "a year," Heb. "days."
  • 27:8. "Telem," so 12 MSS of LXX; Heb. "from of old," incongruously.
  • 27:10. "against whom," so some Vrs.; some Heb. MSS, Syr. and Targum "where."
  • 28:1. "armed camps," lit. "camps for the army."
  • 28:2. "now," so some Vrs.; Heb. "thou," by change of one letter. "body-guard," lit. "keeper of my head."
  • 28:3. "his own city," so some Vrs.; Heb. "and in his city."

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  • 28:16. "your adversary," so possibly Symmachus, or with LXX and Syr. "on the side of your neighbor"; Heb. untranslatable, probably due either to transposition or change of one letter.
  • 29:3. "two years," so Luc.; LXX "a second year"; Heb. impossibly, "these days or these years." "to me," so Vrs.; Heb. om.
  • 24:4. "fray," LXX "camp."
  • 24:10. "and go," etc., as far as "sight," so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 24:12. "and two clusters of raisins," not in LXX.
  • 29:13. "three days ago," so some Vrs.; Heb. om. "days."
  • 29:17, "to exterminate them," lit. "to cause to devote them"; Heb. "to their morrow," is impossible. A slight rearrangement of letters and one letter added gives the above.
  • 29:20. "they took," Heb. "David took," but some Vrs. om. "David." If then we read "and they drove them before them," as above, "took" should have the same subject and be plural. Heb. adds superfluously "that cattle," for which LXX has "the spoil." These words were probably added after the pron. suf . "him" preserved in Vulg. was lost from Heb.
  • 29:21. "he halted," etc., so some Vrs.; Heb. "they." "they saluted," so required by vs. 22; Heb. "David saluted."
  • 29:22. "with us," so some Vrs.; Heb. "with me."
  • 30:23. "after," so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 30:29. "Carmel," so LXX, Heb. "Racal," probably by error.
  • 30:30. "Beersheba," Heb. "Borashan," probably a corruption.
  • 31:3. "archers," Heb. adds "men." "and he was grievously wounded in the abdomen," so LXX; Heb. "and he was greatly distressed by the archers," due to confusion of archers and abdomen, and a different vowel pointing of verb. The second "run me through," not found in the parallel in Chronicles.
  • 31:6. So "and all his men," not in LXX nor in Chronicles.
  • 31:9. "to their idols," so LXX; Heb. "to the house of their idols," due to scribal error.
  • 31:10. "Ashtarte," so LXX; Heb. "Ashtaroth." "impaled," Heb. is ungrammatical.
  • 31:11. "they burnt them there" is not in Chronicles, and may be a corruption for "they lamented over them there."

NOTES ON THE SECOND BOOK OF SAMUEL
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  • 1:4. "have fallen," so some Vrs.; Heb. adds "are dead."
  • 1:9. "confusion," meaning very uncertain.
  • 1:10. "because my life is yet in me" so LXX, Heb. "is yet whole in me."
  • 1:18. This vs. in Heb. is in disorder, clause b should come first, while "and he said" should come last. The word rendered "bow" is not in LXX. "To instruct the Judahites" may cover up the beginning of the poem.
  • 1:19. "thy beauty," "thy" is implicit, and refers to Saul and Jonathan.
  • 1:21. "of Gilboa," so some Vrs.; Heb. "in Gilboa." "fall," so some Vrs.; Heb. "be upon you." "fields of death," so LXX; Heb. "fields of offerings," probably due to corruption.
  • 1:25b. "by thy death am I mortally wounded," Heb. "on thy heights are the slain,"

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gives no sense, but correcting Heb. by some MSS of LXX we get the foregoing. Heb. is due to the loss of one letter and the insertion of wrong vowels.

  • 2:3. "the men," so LXX; Heb. "his men David brought up," not in LXX. •
  • 2:4. "saying that," etc., the rel. particle "that" being read according to the order of LXX and 1:4; Heb. displaced and contrary to Heb. usage.
  • 2:8. "Ishbaal" (man of Baal) so some Vrs.; Heb. "Ishbosheth" (man of shame).
  • 2:9. "Ashurites," so Heb.; some Vrs. "Geshurites."
  • 2:13. "from Hebron," so LXX; Heb. om. "pool of Gibeon," Heb. adds "together."
  • 2:15. "Ishbaal," so LXX.
  • 2:16. "sides," LXX shows that it read the consonants for "sides"; Heb. "adversaries."
  • 2:22. "look your brother Joab in the face," lit. "lift up my face to Joab."
  • 2:23. "with a backward thrust of the spear," lit. "with the after part of the spear."
  • 2:24. "Giah," uncertain, perhaps, to be connected with "way" following, so LXX.
  • 2:27. "the Lord," so some Vrs.; Heb. "God."
  • 2:29. "Bithron," i.e., "Ravine."
  • 2:31. "three hundred and sixty," so LXX; Heb. adds "they died."
  • 3:1. "grew more strenuous," so LXX; Heb. "was prolonged."
  • 3:7. "Ishbaal the son of Saul," so LXX; Heb. om., but it is needed.
  • 3:8. "that today," so LXX. Heb. adds "to Judah."
  • 3:12. "to Hebron," so Luc., Heb. "in his stead, saying, whose is the land?"
  • 3:15. "from her husband," so LXX; Heb. "from a man."
  • 3:18. "I will save," so Vrs.; Heb. "to save."
  • 3:24-25. "is gone? Do you not know"; so some Vrs.; Heb. "gone along. You know."
  • 3:27. "side," so LXX; Heb. "midst."
  • 3:29. "distaff," i.e., like a woman.
  • 3:36. "for," Heb. "like," adding one letter gives "for."
  • 4:1. "Ishbaal," so Vrs.; Heb. om. "listless," i.e., having lost courage.
  • 4:2. "Ishbaal," Heb. om.
  • 4:4. "Meribaal," cf. I Chron. 8:34, 9:40, and LXX.
  • 4 :6. So LXX.; Heb. is untranslatable.
  • 4:10. So read by omitting a superfluous word in Heb. which otherwise makes the vs. untranslatable.
  • 5.8. The word sinnor is uncertain but may refer to the underground shaft leading to the Virgin's Spring. This vs. is hopelessly corrupt, the rendering given rests upon a conjectural emendation, and a slight rearrangement.
  • 5:10. "Lord of armies," so LXX; Heb. "God of," etc.
  • 5:12. "that his kingdom had been exalted," so some Vrs.; Heb. "that he had exalted his kingdom."
  • 5:16. "Baaliada," so I Chron. 14:7, cf. LXX.
  • 5:20. "like the bursting of a dam," lit. "like the breaking forth of waters."
  • 5:25. "from Gibeon as far as Gezer," Heb. "from Geba as you go to Gezer."
  • 6:1. "mustered," so LXX; Heb. "added."
  • 6:3. "guiding the cart," so LXX; Heb. adds "new."
  • 6:4. "Uzzah was walking," this seems to have fallen out of the text. "Ahio," so LXX; Heb. om.

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  • 6:5. "with all their might and with songs," so I Chron., cf. LXX; Heb. "with all cypress woods."
  • 6:6. "jostled," Heb. is of uncertain meaning, "because he put out his hand to the ark," so I Chron.; Heb. is untranslatable.
  • 6:19. eshpar, the meaning is unknown.
  • 7:7. "judges," so I Chron.; Heb. has "tribes," due to change of one letter.
  • 7:15. "him who was before you," so some Vrs. and I Chron. 17:13; Heb. "Saul, whom I put away."
  • 7:19. "unto a far distant time," lit. "unto afar off." "and hast made me see the generations of men," this is an emendation. Heb. "this is the law of men," which makes no sense.
  • 7:23. So in part with LXX; Heb. "And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, like Israel, in that GOD went to redeem for himself a people and to make for himself a name, and to do for you the great thing and terrible things for thy land because of thy people whom thou didst redeem for thyself from Egypt, nations and its gods."
  • 8:2. "one full line to put to death and one full line to save alive," so some Vrs., Heb. "two lines to put to death and one full line," etc.
  • 8:4. "a thousand chariots and seven thousand cavalry," so LXX and I Chron. 18:4.
  • 8:8. "Tabah," cf. LXX "Tibhath", Heb. "Betah."
  • 8:10. "Hadoram," so LXX and I Chron.; Heb. "Joram," so in vs. n.
  • 8:12. "Edom," so some Vrs. Heb. MSS and I Chron.; Heb. "Aram."
  • 8:17. "Abiathar son of Ahimelech," so Syr.; Heb. "Ahimelech son of Abiathar."
  • 9:11. "ate at David's table," so LXX; Heb. "eats at my table."
  • 10:5. "about the men," so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 10:6. "with a thousand men and Ishtob with," Heb. has omitted "with" twice.
  • 10:8. "of the city," so LXX, MSS and I Chron.; Heb. "of the gate."
  • 10:16. "Hadadezer," so many MSS; Heb. "Hadarezer," and so regularly.
  • 10:18. "destroyed," lit. "slew," the vs. is very suspicious, "slew" does not apply to chariots, and the absence of footmen, as well as the abnormally high numbers of horsemen, points to errors in transmission.
  • 11:1. "at the return of spring," lit. "at the return of the year." "kings," so Vrs.; Heb. "messengers."
  • 11:11. "as the LORD lives," Heb. "as you live." "LORD" has been supplied to avoid tautology.
  • 11:12. "on the morrow," so some Vrs.; Heb. does not connect this with the following vs.
  • 11:21. "Jerubbaal," so Luc.; Heb. "Jerubbesheth."
  • 11:22. "even all the details" to end, so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 11:23. "to fight us," lit. "unto us." "fought them back," lit. "were upon them."
  • 12:1. "the prophet," so 3 MSS and some Vrs.; Heb. om.
  • 12:6. "seven-fold," so LXX; Heb. "four-fold."
  • 12:8. "the LORD," so Luc.; Heb. inserts "the word of."
  • 12:12. "in the open light of day," lit. "before the sun."
  • 12:14. "scorned the LORD," Heb. supplies "enemies" before "LORD," probably a later scribal addition, "the LORD," so some Vrs.; Heb. "God." "in sackcloth," so Luc.; Heb. om.
  • 12:17. "eat," Heb. misspelled.

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  • 12:18. "How desperate it will make him," lit. "and he will do evil.'*
  • 12:21. "while the child," etc., so some Vrs.; Heb. "because," etc.
  • 12:24. "and she conceived," so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 12:25. "through," lit. "by the hand of." "Jedediah," i.e., Beloved of the LORD. "according to the command of," so some MSS of LXX; Heb. "for the sake of."
  • 12:27. "city of the water supply," correcting according to vs. 27, Heb. has "city of the kingdom," probably corrupt.
  • 12:30. "crown of Milcom," the image of the Ammonite god. "in it," so some Vrs., I Chron. 20:2; Heb. om.
  • 12:31: "labor," a correction of one letter; Heb. "pass "over," which makes no sense
  • 13:8. "fried," lit. "boiled," perhaps in oil.
  • 13:18. "formerly," Heb. "mantles," ungrammatical and due to copyist's error involving one letter.
  • 13:21. "but he did not reprove Amnon his son, because he loved him, for he was his first-born," so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 13:27. "and Absalom made a feast like a royal feast," so some Vrs.; Heb. om.
  • 13:31. "who were standing by him tore their garments," so LXX; Heb. crudely, "standing by torn of garments."
  • 13:34b. So LXX; Heb. "from the way behind him from the side of the mountain." In Heb. the vs. begins, "And Absalom fled." This was probably copied here by a scribe from vs. 37.
  • 13:39. "spirit of," so Luc.; Heb. om.
  • 14:7. "that they may destroy," so Syr.; Heb. "that we may destroy."
  • 14:14. "a person should," etc., changing the order and punctuation slightly, "not to keep in banishment," lit. "not to banish further from him," probably the verb form should be changed by one letter.
  • 14:16. "who seeks," so some Vrs.; Heb. om. "the LORD," so some Vrs.; Heb. "God."
  • 14:21. 21 MSS "you have done"; Heb. "I have done."
  • 14:26. "his hair," lit. "the hair of his head."
  • 14:30. "borders mine," lit. "unto my hand." "go and set it," etc., to end of vs., so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 14:33. "and fell," so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 15:7. "four years," so some Vrs.; Heb. "forty years," clearly an error. "If the LORD will indeed bring me back," so some Vrs.; Heb. untranslatable.
  • 15:8. "in Hebron," so Luc.; Heb. om.
  • 15:12. "and called," so Luc.; Heb. om.
  • 15:17. "attendants," so LXX; Heb. "the people."
  • 15:18a. "the people," so LXX; Heb. "his servants." "all the men of Ittai the Gittite," so LXX; Heb. "all the Gittites."
  • 15:19. "from your place," so Vrs.; Heb. "to your place."
  • 15:23. "stood," required by context; Heb. "passed over," due to confusion of one letter, "before him by way of the olive tree which is in the desert," so Luc.; Heb. ungrammatical, "before the way the desert."
  • 15:24. "and Abiathar," this correction is required by the context, cf. vs. 29; Heb. "and all the Levites," but Levites are unknown to the older narrative, "halted,"

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by the change of one letter from Heb. which has "caused to pour out," and makes no sense.

  • 15:25. "and Abiathar," not in Heb. but probably left out by later scribe, cf. vs. 29. "and let it remain in its place," so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 15:27. "and Abiathar," so LXX; Heb. om. and adds "are you a seer," incongruously, and due to scribal errors.
  • 15:31. "it was told David," so LXX; Heb. "David told."
  • 16:1. "Meribbaal," Heb. "Mephibosheth," and so regularly.
  • 16:2. "why have you these," lit. "what are these to you."
  • 16:13. "continued to curse," etc.; in Heb. the two verbs require the elimination of one letter each. After "stones," Heb. adds "opposite him," probably added by a scribe.
  • 16:14. "at the Jordan," so Luc.; Heb. om.
  • 16:15. "the men of Israel," so LXX; Heb. prefixes "the people of."
  • 16:18. "his," so Qcre Vrs.; Kethibh "not."
  • 17:3. "as the bride to her husband, only the life of one man," so LXX; Heb. gives no sense.
  • 17:19. "dried fruit," following the meaning of some Vrs.; the Heb. word is otherwise unknown.
  • 17:20. "source of the water courses," lit. "the going forth of the waters." The Heb. form before "waters" is unknown and probably a corruption, hence it is necessary to correct two letters to get an intelligible form.
  • 17:25. "Ishmaelite," so LXX, I Chron. 2:17. "Jesse," so Luc.; Heb. "Nahash."
  • 17:28. "brought couches," so LXX; Heb. reads: "lying down." "rugs," so LXX, Heb. om. but adds "parched grain" at end of vs.; LXX om.
  • 17:29. "calves," so Luc.; Heb. untranslatable.
  • 18:2. "divided," so Luc.; Heb. "sent out." "you are equal to," so LXX, Sym.; Heb. makes no sense, owing to change of one letter.
  • 18:7. "on that day," Heb. adds "there." "men," at end, so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 18:19. "was left hanging," so Vrs.; Heb. "was given," by change of one letter.
  • 18:12. "for my sake," so Vrs.; Heb. "who?" which makes no sense.
  • 18:14. "Not so; I would assuage his wrath"; so by slight change; Heb. "I cannot dally thus before you."
  • 18:19. "to Joab," so Luc.; Heb. om.
  • 18:23. "and he said," so some Vrs.; Heb. om.
  • 18:26. "the gate," so some Vrs.; Heb. "the porter."
  • 18:28. "drew near," so Luc.; Heb. "called," due to change of one letter.
  • 18:29. "when Joab sent your servant," Heb. is untranslatable and has doublet readings. The change of one letter makes this clear and permits the foregoing reading.
  • 19:11. "and the word of all Israel came to the king," so many MSS of LXX and some Vrs.; Heb. has transposed this by mistake to 12b.
  • 19:15. "Amasa," so Luc.; Heb. om.
  • 19:18. Slight changes in letters, order of words and punctuation are necessary to make sense of this vs.
  • 19:19. "take it to heart," the order of words in Heb. is ungrammatical.
  • 19:22. "do you not know," so Luc.; Heb. "do I not know?"
  • 19:24. "Meribbaal," Heb. "Mephibosheth."
  • 19:25. "from Jerusalem," so LXX; Heb. "to Jerusalem."

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  • 19:26. "to him saddle me," so some Vrs.; Heb. om. "to him," and reads "let me saddle me."
  • 19:28. "from whose hand," so Luc.; Heb. "and how is there yet to me justice?" "and he cried out," so Luc.; Heb. "and to cry out."
  • 19:31. "at the Jordan," so 5 MSS; Heb. "with."
  • 19:33. "your old age," so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 19:35. "what he eats or what he," lit. "what I eat or what I."
  • 19:39. "stood still," so Luc.; Heb. "passed over," due to misreading of one letter. "first-born," so LXX; Heb. "in David," which makes no sense.
  • 20:3. "living as widows," so LXX; Heb. is obscure.
  • 20:6. "from us," so Luc.; Heb. "our eyes."
  • 20:7. "Abishai," so LXX; Heb. "men of."
  • 20:8. "a sword under," "sword" has fallen out of the text. "and outside his clothing," this reading calls for a slight rearrangement of the phrase.
  • 20:14. "Bichrites," favored by LXX; Heb. "Birites." "after him," so LXX; Heb. has an extra word not in LXX.
  • 20:22. "advised," so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 21:5. "to destroy us," Heb. ungrammatical. "hung," so Sym.; Heb. uncertain of meaning, cf. vs. 9.
  • 21:6. "in Gibeon," fol. LXX; Heb. "Gibeah." "the mountain of," fol. LXX; Heb. "Saul the chosen of," difference probably due to misreading of last letter of Gibeon.
  • 21:8. "Merab," so 2 MSS, Luc., Syr.; Heb. "Michal."
  • 21:10. "barley," so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 21:14. "by the side of," obtained by omitting one letter, Heb. "in the side in."
  • 21:15. "and they encamped in Gob," transposed from vs. 16, and reading "Gob" in place of "Nob," cf . vs. 18.
  • 21:16. "Then arose Dodo," correcting Heb. "and David was weary," which makes no suitable sense, "giants," a collective term for prehistoric peoples, "he had a new girdle," slightly correcting the text; Heb. makes no sense and is ungrammatical .
  • 22:7. "cry," so LXX, Syr.; Heb. repeats "call."
  • 22:11. "sped," so many MSS; Heb. "was seen," by change of one easily confused letter.
  • 22:12. "his encircling pavilions,"' lit. "his circuits pavilions."
  • 22:38. "and destroy," Heb. wrongly vocalized with perfect force.
  • 22:40. "girded," Heb. "scattered," makes no sense, due to omission of one silent letter preserved in Ps. 18.
  • 22:41. "hast made turn," lit. "give," so Ps. 18.; Heb. inserts "rock of," which is overloaded and clumsy.
  • 23:8. "Ishbaal the Hachmonite," so Luc.; Heb. "Yoshebbashshebeth the Tachmonite."
  • 23:9. "Pasdammim," following Chron.; Heb. ungrammatical. "withdrew," lit. "went up."
  • 23:11. "the slain" is only implicit in the text.
  • 23:13. "thirty"; Heb. adds "head," which is lacking in some Vrs. and makes no sense. "rock," so some Vrs. and Chronicles; Heb. "harvest," but ungrammatical. "camp," so Chronicles; Heb. "life of."

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  • 23:17. "It is the blood," so Vrs., Heb. has sign of question.
  • 23:18. "chief of the thirty," so Syr.; Heb. "the three." "among the thirty," so Syr.; Heb. "the three."
  • 23:19. "indeed," so Chronicles; Heb. untranslatable.
  • 23:20. "a valiant man," so some Vrs.; Heb. "son of a living (?) man." "sons ot Ariel," so LXX; Heb. om. "sons of."
  • 23:21. "a formidable looking man," lit. "a man of appearance" following Chronicles. Heb. untranslatable.
  • 23:22. "thirty," required by context; Heb. has "three."
  • 23:23. "body guard," so Luc.; Heb. "subjects" (?), difference due to change of one letter.
  • 23:27. "Sibbecai," so LXX, and Chronicles; Heb. "sons of."
  • 23 =29. "Heled," so some MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "Heleb."
  • 23:32. "Abiel," supported by Vrs.; Heb. "Abialbon." "Joshua the Gunitc," following Luc.; Heb. "sons of J."
  • 23:33- "the son of," has fallen out of Heb.
  • 24:2. "and the commanders," so Luc. and I Chron. 21 :z\ Heb. om.
  • 24:4. "from the," so Syr.; Heb. "before."
  • 24:5. "began from," so Luc.; Heb. "encamped in," due to change of one letter.
  • 24:6. "The Hittites to Kadesh," so Luc.; Heb. untranslatable, due to copyist's errors, "and from Dan they went around," correcting Heb. with help of LXX. Heb. untranslatable.
  • 24:10. "after," so Luc.; Heb. "afterward," due to difference of one letter.
  • 24:13. "three years," etc., so LXX; Heb. "seven."
  • 24:15. clause a according to LXX; Heb. "and the LORD gave a plague in Israel from the morning to the time of a season." "and slew," correcting the vowels of Heb. which reads: "and died."
  • 24:23. "servant of my LORD," Heb. has "Araunah" instead, which is against Heb. usage.

NOTES ON THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS
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  • 1:5. "restrained," so LXX; Heb. "troubled," difference due to change of one letter.
  • 1:6. "was born," Heb. is ungrammatical.
  • 1:9. "En rogel," i.e., "spring of the treader," referring to method of washing garments. "and all the men of," following 10 MSS.
  • 1:18. "and you," so Vrs., and 200 MSS; Heb. "and now."
  • 1:20. "and now," so 120 MSS and Targum.
  • 1:25. "and to Joab the commander of," so Luc.; Heb. "the commanders."
  • 1:28. "before him," so some Vrs.; Heb. "before the king."
  • 1:36. clause b according to LXX; Heb. has "so may the LORD the god of my lord the king say."
  • 1:48. "of my offspring," so some Vrs.; Heb. om.
  • 2:4. Heb. adds "saying" after "fail you."
  • 2:5. "avenged," so Luc.; Heb. "put blood of war in peace." "innocent blood," so LXX; Heb. "blood of war."
  • 2:16. "refuse me," lit., "turn aside my face."
  • 2:22. "on his side are," so some Vrs.; Heb. om. and adds "to him" instead.

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  • 2:26. "ark of the LORD," Heb. adds "LORD" superfluously, against some Vrs.
  • 2:29. "Solomon sent," etc., to end of sentence, so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 3:4. "in righteousness and," so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 4:19. clause thus, following the Vulgate. Heb. makes poor sense, "and one officer who in the land."
  • 4:21. "even unto," so some Vrs.; Heb. om.
  • 4:32. "five thousand," so some Vrs.; Heb. "one thousand and five."
  • 5:11. "160,000 gals.," so Vrs.; Heb. "twenty" cors, but the cor was a dry measure.
  • 6:2. i.e. "twenty cubits," so Vrs.; Heb. om. cubits.
  • 6:3. "the temple," so Vrs.; Heb. "temple of the house."
  • 6:6. "supports should not be inset," Heb. om.
  • 6:8. "lower," so some Vrs.; Heb. has "middle," but inconsistently.
  • 6:9. After "house" Heb. adds two words ungrammatically, "panels (?) and rows," probably a gloss.
  • 6:15, 16. "rafters," so LXX; Heb. "walls."
  • 6:17. "before the inner room," so Vrs.; Heb. "before me."
  • 6:20. Heb. inserts "before" at the beginning of the vs. which makes no sense. R.V. is mistranslated "made," so LXX and Luc.; Heb. "overlaid."
  • 6:21. so Luc.; Heb. inserts and reads: "and Solomon overlaid the house within with rare gold." This is apparently a gloss taken from vs. 22.
  • 6:22. so LXX and Luc.; Heb. adds "and all the altar which belonged to the inner room he overlaid with gold," which merely repeats vs. 21.
  • 6:31. "and door posts," so V. and O.L.; Heb. om. "and."
  • 6:34. "leaves of the other door," so Vrs.
  • 7:2. "three rows," so LXX; Heb. has "four" but cf. vs. 4.
  • 7:3. "and the number of the columns," so LXX; Heb. om. "windows," so LXX; Heb. "posts."
  • 7:5. "door was over against door," so LXX; Heb. "window over against window," which is mere repetition of vs. 4.
  • 7:6. "cornice," following suggestion of Vulg.; Heb. word unknown.
  • 7:7. "rafters," so some Vrs.; Heb. "floor."
  • 7:8. "made," Heb. is syntactically indefensible.
  • 7:12. so clause r with the aid of LXX; Heb. om. "around" and last "court of."
  • 7:15. "cast," so LXX, Heb. "formed"; "for the porch of the temple," so some Vrs.; Heb. om. "The thickness of the column," to the end of vs., so Vrs., Heb. om.
  • 7:17. "a net ... and a net," so LXX and Luc.; Heb. "seven."
  • 7:18. Heb. om. "bronze pomegranates" and adds "round about top of columns,'' following 2 MSS; Heb. has "pomegranates" for "columns."
  • 7:26. In LXX this vs. precedes vs. 25.
  • 7:30. "corners," following vs. 34; Heb. has "feet."
  • 7:31. "shoulderpiece," Heb. "capital."
  • 7:40. "pots," so some Vrs.; Heb. "lavers."
  • 7:42. "top," so Vrs.; Heb. "before."
  • 7:47. before vs. 46, so LXX and Luc.
  • 7:46. Heb. has "the king cast"; LXX and Luc. "he cast."
  • 7:47. So LXX; Heb. has "and Solomon made to rest all these vessels," etc., which is bad sense.

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  • 7:48. so Luc.; Heb. "and Solomon made," etc.
  • 8: 12, 13. so substantially LXX; Heb. "then Solomon said, 'The LORD said he would dwell in thick darkness. I have surely built thee a lofty house, a dwelling for thy habitation forever.'"
  • 8:16. "but I have chosen Jerusalem that my name might be there," so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 8:27."But can God dwell with man," so some Vrs.; Heb. "But will God in very deed dwell," etc., but unidiomatically.
  • 8:35. "afflict," so some Vrs.; Heb. "answer."
  • 8:37. "in any of," so Syr.; Heb. "in the land of his gates."
  • 8:65. "seven days," so Vrs.; Heb. adds "and seven days even fourteen days," but against the context, cf. vs. 66.
  • 8:66. "But on the eighth day," so Vrs.; Heb. om., but due to previous gloss.
  • 9:1. "work," so some Vrs.; Heb. "desire."
  • 9:8. "ruins," so Syr.; Heb. "most high," which is contrary to context of vs. 1.
  • 9:18. "of Judah," this is not in Heb., but has probably fallen out.
  • 9:22. "officers of third rank," such officers were a regular part of the Assyrian military service.
  • 9:25. "before the LORD," so some Vrs.; Heb. adds "with it" which is ungrammatical.
  • 10:8. "wives," so Vrs.; Heb. "men," which is redundant. "besides that which came from," so by slight change.
  • 10:15. Heb. "besides the men of the spies," which makes no suitable sense. "Arabians," so Vrs.; Heb. "a mixture."
  • 10:19. "and heads of calves," so LXX; Heb. "and a round top."
  • 10:28. "Kue," following suggestion of LXX.
  • 11:1. so Vrs.; Heb. "and King Solomon loved many foreign women even the daughter of Pharaoh," etc.
  • 11:7. "god of," so LXX; Heb. has "abomination."
  • 11:24. after "band" Heb. inserts an irrelevant gloss: "when David slew them."
  • 11:25. "did," so Vrs.; Heb. om. "Edom," so some Vrs.; Heb. "Aram."
  • 11:33. "he has forsaken," so Vrs.; Heb. "they."
  • 11:35. "I will certainly pardon," so Vrs.; Hob. "I will make him a prince."
  • 12:28. "to the people," so LXX; Heb. "to them."
  • 12:30. "to Israel," so Luc.; Heb. om.
  • 13:11. "sons," so Vrs.; Heb. "son."
  • 13:12. "pointed out," so Vrs.; Heb. "saw."
  • 13:17. "was declared," so some Vrs.; Heb. "the word."
  • 13:23. "and once more he departed," so Vrs.; Heb. "for the prophet who had brought him back."
  • 13:29. Heb. adds after "and he brought it," "and he came," and after "city," "of the old prophet."
  • 13:33. "Whomsoever he would," etc., with the aid of Vrs.; Heb. is impossible.
  • 14:2. "that I should be king," so Vrs.; Heb. "spoke of me for king." Vrs. more idiomatic.
  • 14:14b. So by slight change; Heb. "this is the day; and what? Even now."
  • 14:15. "Ashtarte," so some Vrs.; Heb. "Asherim."
  • 15:30. "and by his provocation," so LXX; Heb. om. "and."

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  • 16:21. "was divided"; Heb. adds "into half."
  • 16:27. "his prowess"; Heb. adds "which he did."
  • 17:1. "Tishbe," so LXX; Heb. "sojourners."
  • 17:12. "nothing," so some Vrs.; Heb. "a rake," a word found only once besides.
  • 17:15. "day after day," gained by redivision of consonants. Heb. has "days," which is harsh and incomplete.
  • 18:5. "and let us go through," so LXX; Heb. om. "cattle shall not be cut off from us," so Luc.; Heb. untranslatable.
  • 18:26. "they had made," so Vrs.; Heb. "he made."
  • 18:43. The last sentence is omitted in Heb.; LXX has it.
  • 19:1. "and how that he had slain," so Vrs.; Heb. "and all that he had slain."
  • 19:2. "as surely as you are Elijah and I am Jezebel," so LXX and Luc.; Heb. om. "so may God do," so LXX; Heb. "so may gods do."
  • 19:10. "forsaken thee," so Vrs.; Heb. "forsaken thy covenant."
  • 20:3. "your children," Heb. adds "the goodly ones," not in LXX.
  • 20:17. "and they sent to," following lead of LXX; Heb. and some MSS of LXX "sent."
  • 20:21. "captured," so LXX; Heb. "smote."
  • 20:27. "small flocks," following Vrs.; Heb. word unknown. Heb. repeats "and he said" after "king of Israel."
  • 20:33. "caught it from him," so Vrs.; Heb. untranslatable due to wrong word division.
  • 20:34. "said Ahab," is not in Heb., but is required for accuracy.
  • 21:1. Heb. prefixes, "and it came to pass after these things," which is very ill fitting.
  • 21:4. "covered," so LXX; Heb. "turned."
  • 21:10. "cursed," lit. "blessed," but probably used euphemistically for an unspeakable crime.
  • 21:13. "against Naboth"; Heb. inserts "him" before "Naboth."
  • 21:20. "to no purpose," so LXX; Heb. om. by error.
  • 21:23. "district," so some Vrs.; Heb. "rampart."
  • 22:6. "LORD." Heb. has Heb. word for "lord." "surely," so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 22:10. So with context; Heb. "clothed in his clothes at the threshing-floor at the entrance."
  • 22:13. "have spoken good." so LXX; Heb. "the words of the prophet are good."
  • 22:19. "Micaiah," Heb. om.
  • 22:24. "where is the spirit," etc., so LXX; Heb. is clumsy and anomalous grammatically "where passed by the spirit of the LORD from me to speak with you."
  • 22:32. "surrounded," so LXX and Luc.; Heb. "turned aside."
  • 22:34. "fight," lit. "camp."
  • 22.38. "in his blood," so LXX and Luc.; Heb. om. and is incomplete.
  • 22:47. The last clause in Heb. reads: "a deputy was king." Vss. 47-48 are differently divided in Heb.
  • 22:48. "made," so many MSS and LXX; Heb. "hasten."

NOTES ON THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS
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  • 1:12. "with him," so several Heb. MSS and Vrs.; Heb. om. "with" due to pointing.
  • 1:17. "his brother," so LXX; Heb. om.

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  • 2:9. "a two- fold share," lit. "a share of two (persons)," i.e., the especial share of a first-born son.
  • 2:19. "is abortive," lit. "casts her young."
  • 3:17. "your army," so Luc.; Heb. "cattle."
  • 3:24. "and they went forward," etc., so LXX and Luc.; Heb. untranslatable.
  • 3:25. "and they harried," etc., so Luc.; Heb. "until in Kir-hareseth they left the stones thereof."
  • 3:27. "their own," so Vrs.; Heb. om.
  • 4:5. "vessels" is not in Heb., but is required.
  • 4:8. "afterward" is supplied from the context.
  • 4:19. "his father," supplied from context.
  • 6:8. Words in quotations following the lead of some Vrs.; Heb. dubious.
  • 6:15. The vs. as read is restored from the help of the Vrs. and context. Heb. is confused and harsh.
  • 6:22. "not," so Luc., as context requires; Heb. om.
  • 6:27. "to her," so Syr.; Heb. "let not," very difficult if not impossible.
  • 6:33. "the king," so read according to the context requirements, Heb. "messenger."
  • 6:13. This vs. has been freely reconstructed with the aid of the Vrs. to meet the demands of the context. Heb. is obscure and confused.
  • 6:14. "mounted men," so LXX; Heb. "chariots of horses."
  • 6:17. after "spoke" Heb. inserts "which spoke," but it is not in some Vrs.
  • 8:6. "an official," lit. "eunuch."
  • 8:10. "to him," so Vrs.; Heb. "not."
  • 8:13. "dead," so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 8:16. after "Israel" Heb. adds "and Jehoshaphat king of Judah."
  • 8:19. "before him," emended from Heb. "for his sons," which is disjointed.
  • 8:21. "together with," by adding one letter to the Heb., which is self contradictory as it stands.
  • 8:26. "granddaughter," lit. "daughter."
  • 9 :6. "the servant" is supplied from the context.
  • 9:13. "stairway," due to a slight emendation of the Heb., which is dubious and uncertain.
  • 9:17. "dust cloud," so LXX; Heb. "multitude."
  • 9:21. "They had made ready," so some Vrs.; Heb. "he," etc.
    1. "side by side," punctuating the Heb. differently. Heb. is inexplicable.
  • 9:27. "and they wounded him," so some Vrs.; Heb. om.
  • 9:36, 37. "confines," lit. "portion."
  • 10:1. "the city," so some Vrs.; Heb. "Jezreel." "those who had charge of the descendants of Ahab," so Luc.; Heb. om. "descendants of."
  • 10:2. "cities," so Vrs.; Heb. "city."
  • 10:13. "to greet," lit. "for the welfare." Probably a word has fallen out of the text.
  • 10:15. "Then Jehu said," is supplied from context, "in accord with my heart," so some Vrs.; Heb. om. "with my heart."
  • 10:16. "he caused him," etc., so Vrs.; Heb. "they," etc.
  • 10-25. "inner room," a correction. Heb. has "city," which is certainly wrong, "guards," lit. "runners."

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  • 10:26. "the Asherah," so Vrs.; Heb. "pillars" which were of stone. This was brought out and burnt.
  • 10:32. "to be angry with," so Targum; Vulg. "to loathe," Hub. "to cut off."
  • 2:12. "put him," lacking in Heb., but supplied from Chronicles.
  • 11:4. "the guards," lit. "runners."
  • 11:6. This vs. is probably a gloss; it seriously interrupts vss. 5 and 7 and confuses.
  • 11:6. "house of the king," following a scholium of Field; Heb. untranslatable.
  • 11:7. "to keep the watch," reading a participle in place of the finite verb to correspond with vs. 5.
  • 11:11. "side," lit. "shoulder."
  • 11:13. Heb. inserts "the guards" before "the people." Manifestly a gloss and omitted by Chron.
  • 11:15. "appointed over the army," following a slightly different vocalization from Heb.
  • 12:4. "property," this is not in Heb., but seems to be implied from the reference to "persons" following, "assessment," so Luc.; Heb. "current."
  • 12:9. "doorpost," this is an emendation; Heb. "altar."
  • 12:10. "counted and tied up in bags," so Pesh.; Heb. reverses the order.
  • 13:20. "at the coming in of the year," so LXX; Heb. gives no sense.
  • 13:23. "until now" is not in the Hexapla and may be a later gloss.
  • 14:9. "It has turned your head," lit. "your heart has lifted you up." "borrow unnecessary trouble," lit. "wage war with trouble."
  • 14:22. "Amaziah" supplied from context.
  • 14:23. "and reigned," so some Vrs.; Heb. om.
  • 14:28. the vs. as it stands in Heb. is corrupt and contradictory; the rendering adopted requires the change of only two words and a different arrangement.
  • 15:8. "reigned"; Heb. om.
  • 15:10. "Ibleam," so Luc.; Heb. makes no sense.
  • 15:11. "Tappuah," so Luc.; Heb. "Tiphsah," but this was on the Euphrates. The clause after the semicolon is defective in Heb. It can be restored from LXX and Pesh.
  • 15:19. "In his days," so LXX.; Heb. " all his days," with a different vs. division. "Pul," i.e., Tiglath Pileser III. "a thousand talents," i.e., over $2,000,000.
  • 15:20. "fifty shekels," i.e., about $33.50.
  • 15:23. "and reigned" is supplied from the context.
  • 15:25. After "house of the king," Heb. inserts "Argob and Aryeh," probably by mistake from place names in vs. 29.
  • 15:27. "and reigned" is supplied from the context.
  • 15:34. Heb. repeats "made" once too many times.
  • 16:5. "to overcome him," lit. "to wage successful war."
  • 16:6. "The Edomites," so Heb. margin and some Vrs. This carries with it "Edom" for "Syria" throughout the vs. Heb. "Rezin king of Syria" for "Syria."
  • 16:18. The vs. is hopelessly obscure. "The foundation of the seat," so LXX; Heb. "something covered in of the Sabbath." "from the house," "from" is not in Heb.
  • 17:1. "and reigned," is supplied from the context.
  • 17:4. "Sewe" from Assyr. "Sibʾu." Heb. "So."
  • 17:8. Heb. adds "and the kings of Israel whom they made," probably a marginal gloss.

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  • 17:27. "I carried away," so some Vrs.; Heb. "you carried away." "and let him go," so Vrs.; Heb. "and let them go."
  • 18:16. "the gold," supplied from context.
  • 18:17. Heb. repeats "and came up" after "Jerusalem"; Vrs. om. "treaders," so named from the method of washing clothes.
  • 18:23. After "repulse" Heb. inserts "satrap," but ungrammatically and probably a gloss.
  • 18:34. "where are the gods of Samaria," so Luc.; Heb. om.
  • 19:26. "desert downs," due to a slight correction of one word. "Before me is your rising up," following a different punctuation and involving the change of one letter in the last word.
  • 20:4. "courtyard," so Qere and Vrs.; Kethibh "city."
  • 20:7. The direct quotation as in Vrs.; Heb. "Let him take a cake of figs, and they took and placed it on the boil and he recovered."
  • 20:12. "Merodach-baladan," so Vrs.; Heb. "Berodach-baladan," representing Assyrian "Marduk-apal-iddin." "eunuchs," an emendation which accords with the suffixes in vs. 13 Heb. "letters."
  • 20:13. "Hezekiah was glad," so Vrs.; Heb. "and Hez. hearkened."
  • 21 :26. "in the grave of his father," so Luc.; Heb. "in his grave."
  • 22:13. "therein," so Luc.; Heb. om.
  • 23:4. "second priest," so Targum; Heb. "priests." "limekilns," so Luc.; Heb. "fields," a word elsewhere used only in poetry.
  • 23:5. "heavenly mansions," referring to certain fixed stars and planets.
  • 23 :7. "tunics," so Luc., LXX; Heb. "houses."
  • 23:9. "Satyrs," reading the vowels of LXX and Luc.
  • 23.12. "upper chamber of Ahaz," may be a later gloss, "and beat them down there," making a different word division from the Heb. which has "beat down from there." Another versional reading is "banish."
  • 23:13. "Ashtarte," Heb. regularly "Ashtoreth."
  • 23:15. "shattered its stones," so LXX and Luc.; Heb. has the impossible: "he burned the high place."
  • 23:34. "brought," so LXX and Luc.; Heb. "came."
  • 25:3. "fourth," supplied from Jer. 30:4.
  • 25:4. "the king," so Luc.; Heb. om. "fled," supplied from Vulgate and Jer. 51:7.

NOTES ON THE FIRST BOOK OF CHRONICLES
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  • 2:6. "Darda," so Vrs. and MSS; Heb. "Dara."
  • 2:7. "son of," Heb. "sons of."
  • 2:18. "daughter of," is a correction. Otherwise "Jerioth" is a second wife which is contrary to the context.
  • 2:24. "Caleb sought offspring of Ephrathah the wife of Hezron his father." LXX presupposes this text; Heb. quite incongruously has instead "in Caleb Ephrathah and the wife of Hezron Abijah!"
  • 2:31. "son of," so some Vrs.; Heb. "sons of."
  • 2:42. Heb. inserts after "last," "and the sons of Mareshah," which makes no sense.
  • 2:50. "sons of Hur," so LXX; Heb. "son of."

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  • 3:17. Heb. adds "his son" at the end, but not found in LXX.
  • 3:21. "his son," with Vrs.; Heb. has "sons of" each time, and is disjointed and obscure, "his son" at the end is supplied from LXX.
  • 4:3. "sons of," so LXX; Heb. "father of," which is incongruous.
  • 4:17. "And Jether was the father of," so LXX; Heb. "and she conceived Miriam," etc.
  • 4:22. "and returned to Bethlehem," so LXX and Vulg.; Heb. "Jashubilehem," a proper name.
  • 5:6. "Tiglath-pileser," Heb. "Tilgath-pilneser"; this was Tiglath-pileser III, 745- 728 B.C.
  • 5:16. "Sirion," so LXX; Heb. "Sharon."
  • 6:28. "Joel and the second Abiah," so Luc. and Syr.; Heb. om. "Joel," reads "second" as a proper name "Vashni" and adds "and Abiah."
  • 6:61. "Returned," from Josh. 21:5. Heb. reads "family" for "families" and om. "Ephraim and Dan" which makes no sense.
  • 6:66. So Luc. and Vulg.; Heb. "from the families" and instead of "allotted" in Joshua 21:20 has "of their border."
  • 6:70. "families," so Josh. 21.26; Heb. "family."
  • 7:15. This vs. is corrected to harmonize with its context. Heb. "and Machir took a wife of Shuppim and Huppim and the name of his sister was Maʾacah and the name of the second Zelophehad."
  • 7:34. "his brother," by a slightly different word division. Heb. has "Ahi," a proper name.
  • 7:35. "The sons of," so Seb. and some Vrs.; Heb. "son of."
  • 8:8. This vs. is hopelessly corrupt; the reading suggested is made by slightly correcting the current text.
  • 8:29. "Jeuel," supplied from 9:35; Heb. om.
  • 8:30. "Ner," so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 8:32. "together," lit. "with their kinsmen."
  • 8:33. "Abner," Heb. "Kish," but cf. 9:36, I Sam. 14:51.
  • 9:2. "Nethinim," i.e., temple servants, elsewhere mentioned only in Ezra, Nehemiah.
  • 9:33. "dwelling," of the temple, "and from other service," must be supplied from the context.
  • 10:7. "Israel had fled," so LXX; Heb. om. "Israel."
  • 10:11. "the inhabitants," so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 11:11. "whom he slew," lit. "slain."
  • 11:20a, b. "thirty," so Syr.; Heb. "three." "whom he slew," lit. "slain."
  • 11:21. "thirty," required from context; Heb. "three." Heb. adds "among the two," very questionable.
  • 11:24. "like," changing one letter; Heb. "with."
  • 12:19. "Arnasai," required by context; Heb. "Abishai."
  • 13:15. "The river of Egypt"; Heb. has "the Nile."
  • 15:13. "ready," supplied from context.
  • 15:15. Heb. adds "upon them," probably a gloss, not in LXX.
  • 15:18. "Uzziel," so LXX; Heb. "the son of Jaaziel."
  • 16:3. "portion of meat." The Hebrew word is unknown and this meaning is derived entirely from the context.
  • 16:5 "Then Uzziel," so LXX; Heb. "Jeiel."

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  • 16:42. "to make music," so LXX; Heb. "those making music."
  • 17:15. "to dwelling," is not in text.
  • 17:17. The rendering rests on some emendation; Heb. is corrupt.
  • 17:19. the vs. is corrupt.
  • 17:21. "other," so LXX; Heb. "one."
  • 17:25. "courage," this has to be supplied from II Samuel.
  • 18:6. "garrisons," so Vrs.; Heb. om.
  • 18:10. "he had with him" is supplied from II Samuel. ,
  • 19:8. "and the trained warriors," Heb. "of the trained warriors," but the trained warriors were distinct from the army.
  • 19:17. After "upon them" Heb. inserts "he drew up to them."
  • 19:18. "horsemen," Heb. "chariots," which is manifestly wrong.
  • 20:2. "a talent," i.e., about $500.00.
  • 20:3. "Put them to," so II Sam. 12:31; Heb. "sawed them with."
  • 21:12. "overtaking you," so Luc. and Targum; Heb. om. one letter.
  • 23:29. "sacred bread," lit. "bread of the rows," i.e., lined up in a row before the Deity.
  • 24:23. "Sons of Hebron," so some MSS and Luc.; Heb. om.
  • 24:26. "Uzziah," so LXX; Heb. "Jaaziah." "Bani," so LXX; Heb. "Beno"; so also in vs. 27.
  • 26:16. "to Hosah"; Heb. "to Shuppim and," which is probably due to a dittography. "That goes out," so Vulg. instead of taking "Shullecheth" as a proper name.
  • 26:22. Heb. inserts at the beginning: "the sons of Jehieli" but this is not in Luc. and cf. 23:8.
  • 26:23. Heb. "and before Shubael," which is confusing.
  • 27:4. "and Mikloth the leader" is obscure and out of place.
  • 28:18. "that spread," etc., with LXX.
  • 28:21. "Now behold," etc., to "and" restored from LXX, om. accidentally in Heb.
  • 29:7. "ten thousand darics," not quite $56,000 in value.

NOTES ON THE SECOND BOOK OF CHRONICLES
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  • 1:13. "from the high place," so LXX and Vulg.; Heb. "to," etc.
  • 2:10. 400,000 bushels, Heb. "20,000 cors."
  • 2:10. 400,000 gallons, Heb. "20,000 baths."
  • 6:28. "one of their gates," so LXX; Heb. "the land of their gates."
  • 8:15. "from the commandments," so LXX, Vulg.; Heb. om. "from."
  • 8:16. "by Solomon," so LXX; Heb. reads "the house of the LORD was completed."
  • 9:7. "wives," so Vrs.; Heb. has "men," followed by "servants," which seems awkward.
  • 9:13. "The traffic of the," an emendation; Heb. "from the men of those who turn."
  • 9:28. "were brought," so LXX; Heb. "those bringing."
  • 10.5. "go away," so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 10:16. "saw," so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 11:18. "and of Abihail," so LXX; Heb. om. conj.
  • 11:23. "and to all," so some forms of LXX; Heb. om. "and,"

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  • 12:10. "guard,", lit. "runners."
  • 18:9. before "at the entrance," Heb. inserts "threshing floor," perhaps a gloss.
  • 18:12. "spoken," so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 18:29. "I will disguise," etc., so Vrs.; Heb. has imperative.
  • 20:1. "Meunim," so LXX; Heb. "some of the Ammonites."
  • 20:25. "Cattle," so LXX; Heb. "away then."
  • 21:20. "lamented," lit. "desired."
  • 22:2. "daughter," really "granddaughter."
  • 23:18. "and Levites," so Vrs.; Heb. om. "and."
  • 25:6. "one hundred talents," i.e., a little less than five tons.
  • 25:8. "will not," etc., the negative has to be supplied, the vs. is very corrupt.
  • 25:20. "of the enemy," so Vulg.; Heb. om.
  • 26:5. "fear," so Vrs. and some Heb. MSS; Heb. "visions."
  • 26:6. Heb. adds "in Ashdod" after "cities"; this is manifestly wrong and probably a gloss.
  • 27:5. "a hundred talents," i.e., nearly five tons.
  • 28:20. "Tiglath-pileser"; Heb. "Tilgath-pilneser."
  • 29:18. "and the altar," so Vulg.; Heb. om. "and."
  • 29:21. "with all their might," a slight correction; Heb. "with instruments of strength."
  • 30:22. "the offerings of," is a correction to meet the requirements of the context.
  • 32:5. "raised up towers on it," so Vulg.; Heb. "raised up" or "went up upon the towers."
  • 32:22. "All their enemies," so several MSS; Heb. om. "their enemies." "and gave them rest," so LXX and Vulg.; Heb. "guided them."
  • 32:28. "and for flocks," so LXX and Vulg.; Heb. "flocks for inclosures."
  • 33:20. "In the garden of," so LXX; Heb. om. "the garden of."
  • 34:22. "mentioned," so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 34:32. "to adhere," lit. "to stand"; "to the covenant" is supplied from II Kings 23:3.
  • 35:21. "I come," so LXX; Heb. "thou." "To fight," so LXX. "another house," so Vulg.; Heb. "to the house of my way."

NOTES ON THE BOOK OF EZRA
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  • 1:3. "Who desires to go," so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 1:5. "clans," lit. "fathers."
  • 1:6. "supplied them," lit. "strengthened their hands."
  • 1:9. "censers" (?), meaning uncertain, used only here.
  • 1:10. "two thousand," the numeral is supplied with the aid of LXX but it varies in Greek. Heb. has "double," very incongruous.
  • 3:3. "for fear was upon them," Heb. has "for in fear upon them."
  • 4:7. The last clause after semicolon is not in LXX and perhaps added later.
  • 4:9. The first clause is a doublet to vs. 8a.
  • 4:10. "Ashurbanipal," Aramaic "Asnappar."
  • 4:15. "The Jews," supplied from I Esd. 2:23; Aramaic om. subject.
  • 5:1. Aramaic adds "prophet" awkwardly after Haggai; it is not in I Esd. 6.
  • 5:3. "sanctuary," deriving the word from Assyrian.

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  • 5:4.. "And who are the builders who are doing this work," so I Esd. 1:4; Aramaic om.
  • 6:2. "Ecbatana," Aramaic "Achmetha."
  • 6:16. "returned exiles," lit. "children of captivity."
  • 7:1. "went up," so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 7:12. "Heartiest greetings," lit. "perfect peace," but "peace" has fallen out of the Heb., yet can be supplied from I Esd. 8:9.
  • 7:14. "sent by," lit. "sent from before."
  • 7.22. "A thousand bushels," Heb. "one hundred cors"; "eight hundred gallons," Heb. "one hundred baths."
  • 8:3. "the son of Shecaniah," Heb. "of the sons of Shecaniah."
  • 8:10. "Bani," supplied from I Esd. 8:10, "Banias."
  • 8:19. "and Jeshaiah," so LXX; Heb. "and with him." "Their kinsmen," so Luc. of I Esd. 8:48.
  • 8:27. "a thousand darics," i.e., over $5,000. "two vessels." Luc. has "twelve," I Esd. 8:57 has "ten."
  • 8:35. "At that time," with what follows, so LXX. Heb. with the preceding.
  • 9:1. "from their abominations," so LXX; Heb. "according to," etc.
  • 10:15. "opposed," lit. "stood against"; "supported," lit. "helped."
  • 10:24. "and Zaccur," so LXX and I Esd. 9:24; Heb. om.
  • 10:34. "Joel," so Luc.; Heb. "Uel."
  • 10:38. "of the sons of Binnui," so LXX; Heb. "and Bani and Binnui."
  • 10:44. Clause b, following the LXX. Heb. is hopelessly corrupt.

NOTES ON THE BOOK OF NEHEMIAH
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  • 1:6. "ears," so Luc.; Heb. "ear."
  • 2:1. "wine was served," Heb. "wine was before him"; LXX "wine was before me." "formerly," this is a slight correction to bring it into harmony with the context. Heb. "before him."
  • 2:18. "took courage," lit. "strengthened their hands."
  • 3:1. "and to the tower of Hananel," Heb. om. "and."
  • 3:2. "next to them," Heb. "him," lit. "upon his hand."
  • 3 :8. "next to them," Heb. "him."
  • 3:11. "even to," so LXX; Heb. "and."
  • 3:15. "Siloah," Heb. "Shelah."
  • 3:17. "including" is supplied. One or more words may have fallen out of Heb.
  • 3:18. "Benuni," so LXX; Heb. "Bavvai."
  • 3 :22. "The Plain," i.e., circuit of the Jordan Valley.
  • 3:23. "after them," Heb. "him."
  • 3:25. "repaired" is not in Heb.
  • 3:29. "after them," Heb. "him."
  • 3-30. "after him," Heb. "after me."
  • 3-31. "after him," Heb. "after me."
  • 4:12. "where they dwell they will come up against us," so with help of LXX; Heb. "you will turn against us ! "
  • 4:16. "supported," lit. "were behind." *
  • 4:17. "were also armed,". so LXX; Heb. "carried loads."

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  • 4:23. "in his hand," following a slight correction, Heb. "the waters."
  • 5:2. "give in pledge," based on the addition of one letter to Heb. Heb. is not straightforward and R.V. is not a legitimate translation.
  • 5:14. Heb. adds here at end of vs. "our fields and our vineyards," a repetition from vs. 3.
  • 5:15. "each day," so Vulg.; Heb. "after."
  • 5:18. "a skin of wine," so in 2 MSS, used collectively; Heb. "with all wine."
  • 6:6. Heb.'adds "according to these words," which makes no sense and was probably introduced by mistake from vs. 7.
  • 6:9. "then," so LXX; Heb. "now."
  • 6:13. Heb. has at the beginning: "in order that he being hired." Luc. om.
  • 7:3. "while," a slight correction; Heb. "until."
  • 7:36, 37. "men of," so I Esd. 5:12; Heb. "children."
  • 7:68. This vs. is not in Heb. and was probably added later.
  • 8:7. "and the Levites," I Esd. 9:48 om. "and."
  • 8:13. "in order to," etc., so LXX; Heb. prefixes "and."
  • 9:4. "Bani," repeated twice, varies in form in Vrs. showing corruption.
  • 9:5. "Your God," LXX; "our God"; "which is exalted," so LXX; Heb. om. "which."
  • 9:6. "And Ezra said," so LXX; Heb. om. "and the heaven of heavens," so Luc.; Heb. om. "and."
  • 9:19. "the way in which," so Vrs.; Heb. prefixes "and."
  • 9:22. "their territory," the expression is very uncertain, "the land of Sihon king of," so Luc.; Heb. repeats "land of" before "king of Heshbon."
  • 9:28. "they shall live," so LXX; Heb. adds "in them."
  • 10:1. "document," Heb. "documents."
  • 10:10. "Hodaviah," so LXX; Heb. "Hodijah," but cf. vs. 13. "Shekaniah," so 17 MSS and some Vrs.; Heb. "Shebaniah," cf. vs. 13.
  • 10:37. "best product," etc., lit. "the best of our kneading troughs and our gifts." The last word is lacking in LXX.
  • 11:8. "able bodied warriors," is an emendation; Heb. "Gabbai Sallai" which shows itself to be a corruption,
  • 11:14. "his kinsmen," so LXX; Heb. "their."
  • 11:17. "Zabdi," LXX and Luc. "Zikri."
  • 11:22. "guild of," lit. "sons of."
  • 11:30. "settled temporarily," lit. "encamped."
  • 11:36. "to Judah and to Benjamin," so Luc.; Heb. "Judah to Benjamin."
  • 12:24. "Binnui," so LXX; Heb. "the son of."
  • 12:25. "Porters keeping watch," "porters" has been transposed in Heb.
  • 12.27. "with all gladness," so 4 MSS; Heb. "and gladness."
  • 12:31. "and the one went," correcting the corrupt Heb.
  • 12:38. "to the left" has one letter dropped out of the text, cf. vs. 31; Heb. "to the front."
  • 12:44b. "chiefs," so with LXX by change of one letter; Heb. "fields." "portions of thanksgiving," so some MSS and Vulg.; Heb. "portions of the law."
  • 13:7. "court of," so LXX; Heb. "courts."
  • 13:15. "loaded on," Heb. "and loaded."

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  • 13:19. "that,"so LXX; Heb. om.
  • 13:29. Luc. om. the first "priesthood and" to advantage.

NOTES ON THE BOOK OF ESTHER
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  • 1:3. "commanders of the," is supplied according to the demands of the context.
  • 1:6. The kinds of stone are of uncertain meaning.
  • 1:22. "Whatever seems proper to him," is due to a correction of one consonant; Heb. "According to the language of his people"; LXX om.; Vrs. vary.
  • 3:19. "pay," lit. "weigh." "the accounting," lit. "the work," i.e., of weighing the money.
  • 4:3. "many lay in sackcloth and ashes," lit. "sackcloth and ashes were spread for many."
  • 5:1. "apartment," lit. "house."
  • 7:7. "and went," is supplied from the context.
  • 9:17. "and the fourteenth they rested," based on a slight change of order of Heb. which reads: "and rest on the fourteenth."
  • 9:18. "they rested and," slightly changing the order of Heb.

NOTES ON THE BOOK OF JOB
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  • 5:56b, c. Text is here unintelligible; the translation is conjectural.
  • 6:7b. An unintelligible text.
  • 6:20c. So LXX and 2 Heb. MSS; Heb. "to myself."
  • 7:13a. So Vrs.; Heb. is untranslatable.
  • 7:18a. So by slight corrections; Heb. "the paths of their course wind about."
  • 7:20a. So Vrs.; Heb. "he trusted."
  • 7:21a. So context and Vrs.; Heb. "For now you have become to him."
  • 10:8b. So Vrs.; Heb. "Together round about, yet thou dost destroy me."
  • 10:15c. So context; Heb. "my misery."
  • 10:20a. So LXX; Heb. "Are not my days few? Let him cease."
  • 11:6b. So context; Heb. "For (it is) two-fold in insight."
  • 11:11b. So LXX; Heb. "gives no heed."
  • 12:18. So Vrs.; Heb. "looses the instruction of kings."
  • 13:15a. So Kethibh; Qere "I will hope for him."
  • 15.23a. So Heb.; better perhaps with LXX. "he is destined for food for the vulture."
  • 15:29b. So Vulg.; Heb. is unintelligible.
  • 15:30c. So in part LXX; Heb. "and he will depart with the breath of his mouth."
  • 16:11a. So Vrs.; Heb. "to a child."
  • 17:15b. So LXX; Heb. "my hope."
  • 17:16a. So LXX; Heb. "bars of Sheol."
  • 17:16b. So LXX; Heb. "Or together upon dust (is there) rest?"
  • 18:13a. So by slight change; Heb. "it eats the limbs of his skin."
  • 19:11a. So Kethibh; Qere "He has kindled his anger against me."
  • 19:20b. So in part LXX; Heb. literally says, "My bone cleaves to my skin and my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth."
  • 19:26a. So with slight change; Heb. "they have torn off this."
  • 19:27c. Literally, "My kidneys fall in my loins."

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  • 19:28a. So many Heb. MSS and the Vrs.; Heb. "in me."
  • 20:17a. So by slight change; Heb. "gaze upon meadows, rivers, valleys of."
  • 20:20a. So context; Heb. "peace in his body."
  • 20:22b. So Vrs.; Heb. "force of one in trouble."
  • 20:23c. So Vulg.; Heb. "upon him in his flesh (?)."
  • 21:13a. So vowels and Vrs.; cons. text, "They wear out," etc.
  • 21:24a. Conjectural rendering; word for "vessels" is unknown.
  • 21:27b. So by slight correction; Heb. "you deal violently against me."
  • 22:17*. So Vrs.; Heb. "do for them."
  • 22 :2g0. So by slight change; Heb. "For they abased and you said, pride."
  • 22:30*. So Vrs.; Heb. "your hands."
  • 23.2b. So Vrs.; Heb. "my hand, etc."
  • 23:9b. So Syr., Heb. "On the left in his working," etc.
  • 23:9a. So Vrs.; Heb. "He turns," etc.
  • 23:12b. So Vrs; Heb. "up more than my law," etc.
  • 23:13a. So context; Heb. "But he is in one and," etc.
  • 23:17a. So one Heb. MS; others read "not overcome."
  • 24:9. This vs. seems out of place in a description of the righteous poor.
  • 24:9b. So context; Heb., "and they take a pledge upon the poor."
  • 24:12c. So two Heb. MSS and Syr.; Heb. "God does not impute folly."
  • 24:18-20, 24. These vss. break the connection, and look like the comments of a pious editor.
  • 24:18a. So with two slight changes; Heb. "Swift is he upon the face of the water."
  • 24:18c. So with two corrections; Heb. "He turns not to the way of the vineyards."
  • 27:18a. So Vrs.; Heb. "like a moth."
  • 30:12b. is omitted , Heb. "they send forth my feet," which yields no sense and is apparently an erroneous repetition of two words in vs. 11.
  • 27:19a. So Vrs.; Heb. "but is not gathered." So with LXX; Heb. "the length of it."
  • 30:3c. So by slight change;* Heb. "On the eve of," etc.
  • 30:11a. So Kethibh; Qere, "his bowstring."
  • 30:18a. So LXX; Heb. "my clothing is disfigured."
  • 30:20b. So Vulg. and one MS; other MSS om. "not."
  • 31:18. So partly Vrs.; Heb. "he grew up for me as for a father and from my mother's body I led her."
  • 31:33a. So with context; Heb. "like men."
  • 32:3b. So with original text; Heb. scribal correction "put Job in the wrong."
  • 32:10a. So Vrs.; Heb. "the many."
  • 32:13b. So with LXX; Heb. "his arguments."
  • 33:10a. So Syr.; Heb. "finds frustrations."
  • 33:17a. So Vrs.; Heb. "That man may put aside work."
  • 33:18b. So context; Heb. "passing with the missile."
  • 34:6b. Literally "is my arrow."
  • 34:14. So partly following some Heb. MSS and the LXX; Heb. "If he were to set his heart upon himself, his spirit and breath to gather to himself."
  • 34:23a. So with context; Heb. "For he no longer considers a man."

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  • 34:26. So with context; Heb. "Instead of the wicked he stops them, in the place of those who see."
  • 34:29c, 30. The text and meaning here are very uncertain. This rendering involves three slight corrections of the text. Heb. "Both upon a nation and upon a man also That a godless man reign not, On account of the snares of the people."
  • 34:31b. So with context; Heb. "I have borne, I," etc.
  • 35:3a. Heb. "profit you" in indirect discourse.
  • 36:12a. Cf. Job 33:9; Heb. "pass away by a missile."
  • 36:13b. So by slight change; Heb. "when he has bound them."
  • 36:14b. Literally, "ends with male temple-prostitutes."
  • 36:16—20. The text of this passage is so poorly preserved that translation can be little more than conjectural.
  • 36:16c. So with omission of three letters, due to copyist's error, which mean "the rest of (your table)."
  • 36:30a. So some Vrs.; Heb. "his light."
  • 36:30b. So by slight change, Heb. "covers the roots of the sea."
  • 36.32b. So by slight change; Heb. "the assailant."
  • 36:33a. So by slight change; Heb. "His friend [or "his shouting"] declares," etc.
  • 37:6b. So some MSS and Syr.; Heb. "And the downpour of rain and the downpour [is] the rains of his strength."
  • 37:15a. So LXX; Heb. "when God lays upon them."
  • 38:8a. So Vulg.; Heb. "And he enclosed."
  • 38:10a. Cf. Vrs.; Heb. "When I broke," etc.
  • 38:11b. So Vrs.; Heb. "Here he sets," etc.
  • 38:14b. So by slight change, Heb. "And they stand forth," etc.
  • 39:13b. So Heb.; but text is very dubious.
  • 39:19b. So Targum; Heb. "with thunder."
  • 39:24b. So by slight change; Heb. "And does not believe when," etc.
  • 40:15a. Heb. "Behold the great beast," etc.
  • 41:2b, 3. So Heb.; LXX reads: "Who then can stand before him? /Who has ever come against him and succeeded? /Under the whole heavens, not one!"
  • 41:5b. So by slight change; Heb. "his double bridle" (or "bit").
  • 41:7a. So Vrs.; Heb. "His pride," etc.
  • 41:12b. Or with Vrs. "and steaming."
  • 41:26a. So by slight change; Heb. "He sees all that is high."
  • 42:3a. A misplaced question.
  • 42:4. A misplaced couplet.

NOTES ON THE PSALMS
...

  • 9 and 10. These two psalms were originally one. They formed an acrostic poem, with a four-line stanza for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet in order. The original fourth stanza has disappeared, and the alphabetic structure ceases at 10:1, to be resumed at 10:12.
  • 9:9. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "they" for "behold."
  • 10:6b. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "which" for "my steps."
  • 11:6a. So with some Greek MSS; Heb. "snares and fire."
  • 12:7a. So with Vrs.; Heb. "them" for "us."

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  • 12:7b. So with some MSS; Heb. "him" for "us."
  • 16:2b. So with Vrs. $ Heb. "My welfare is not upon thee."
  • 16:3b. So by slight change; Heb. "all" for "no."
  • 16:4a. So by slight changes; Heb. "Their troubles will be many; they buy another (?)."
  • 16:7b. Heb., lit. "my kidneys" for "my thoughts."
  • 16:9a. Lit. "my liver;" so by slight vowel change; Heb. "my glory."
  • 17:3d. So with Heb. consonants and in part with LXX; Heb. vowels, "Thou dost not find; I have thought."
  • 17:4b. So by slight change; Heb. "I have kept the ways of the violent."
  • 17:11a. So by slight change; Heb. "our steps," etc.
  • 17:14b. So by slight change; Heb. "portion is from the world."
    1. This psalm is a duplicate of II Sam., chap. 22.
  • 18:12b. So by slight change; Heb. "waters" for "heavens."
  • 18:16a. So in II Sam. 22:16; Heb. here, "waters."
  • 18:30a. So by slight change; Heb. "run a troop."
  • 18:36c. So by slight change; Heb. "thy humility."
  • 18:43b. So in II Sam. 22:43; Heb. here, "I pour them out," etc.
  • 19:4a. So with Vrs.; Heb., "their line."
  • 20:3b. Literally, "regard as fat" for "accept."
  • 20:7a. So with LXX; Heb. "Some call upon," etc.
  • 20:9b. So with LXX; Heb. "May the king answer us," etc.
  • 22:3. So by slight change; Heb. "and thou art holy, inhabiting the praises of Israel."
  • 22:8a. So by slight change; Heb. "Roll thou upon the LORD."
  • 22:16c. So partly with Vrs.; Heb. "Like a lion are my hands and my feet."
  • 22:27b. So LXX; Heb. "before thee."
  • 22:29a. So by slight change; Heb. "All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship."
  • 24:6b. So with LXX; Heb. om. "the God of."
  • 25:17a. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "They have enlarged," etc.
  • 26:2b. Literally, "Examine my kidneys," etc.
  • 27:13a. Some Heb. MSS read, "Had I not believed," etc.
  • 28:8a. So with some Heb. MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "The LORD is their strength and refuge."
  • 29:9a. So by slight change; Heb. "brings travail upon the hinds."
  • 31:6a. Some MSS and the Vrs. read, "Thou hatest."
  • 31:10c. So with Vrs.; Heb. "through my guilt."
  • 31:11b. So by slight change; Heb. "and to my neighbors exceedingly."
  • 32:6b. So by slight change; Heb. "in the time of finding, only," etc.
  • 32:7b. So by slight change; Heb. "with shouts of deliverance."
    1. An acrostic psalm in two-line stanzas, which begin with the letters of the alphabet taken in order.
  • 34:5. So with some Vrs.; Heb. "They looked at him and were jubilant and their faces were not abashed."
  • 35:7b. So with Syr.; Heb. puts "pit" immediately before "net."
  • 35:16a. So with LXX; Heb. "With the profanities of those who mock for a cake (?)."

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  • .35:17b. So by slight change; Heb. "from their destruction."
  • 36:1b. So by slight change; Heb. "An oracle of transgression to the wicked [is] within my heart."
    1. An alphabetical acrostic, in four-line stanzas, the first lines of the stanzas beginning with the letters of the Hebrew alphabet in their order.
  • 37:19b. So by slight changes; Heb. "like the precious (=fat?) of lambs."
  • 37:21. So with LXX; Heb. "those blessed of him" and "those cursed of him."
  • 37:22. So by slight changes; Heb. "From the LORD a man's steps are established, and he decides his way."
  • 37:34b. So with LXX; Heb. "stripping himself like a green tree."
  • 37:36a. So with LXX; Heb. "Watch the blameless one and look upon the upright."
  • 38:18*. So by slight change; Heb. "For I tell my guilt."
  • 39:1d. So with LXX; Heb. "I will watch a muzzle," etc.
  • 39:11b. So with LXX; Heb. "Thou dost consume his treasure like a moth."
  • 40:17. So with Ps. 70.5; Heb. here, "May the Lord give thought to me."
  • 41:9b. So by transposition and slight change; Heb. "has enlarged a heel against me."
  • 42:4b. So with LXX; Heb. "that I went with the crowd, I drew them forth to the house of God."
  • 44:5. So with LXX; Heb. "order" as imperative.
  • 45:3b. So with Vrs.; Heb. repeats "and your majesty."
  • 45:5. So by transposition; Heb. "Your arrows are sharpened; peoples will fall under you; in the midst of the king's foes."
  • 49.12a. So following vs. 20a.
  • 49:14c. So by slight change with context; Heb. "The upright will rule over them."
  • 49:18b. Heb. "They will congratulate you."
  • 49:18d. Heb. "They will never again see light."
  • 49:20a. So by change of one letter; Heb. "man in honor," etc.
  • 50:1b. Or by change of one letter, "and the earth feared," etc.
  • 51:6. The Heb. as it stands is unintelligible. This translation involves a new pointing for one word and the omission of another word as a mistaken gloss.
  • 52:1b. So Heb.; by transposition of one word and a slight change of vowels, we get "against the pious all day long."
  • 52:9b. So by slight change; Heb. "and will await thy name, for it is good before thy saints."
  • 55:19c. On the plural form of the pronominal suffix serving as a singular, cf. Gesenius-Kautzsch, Grammar, §103 f., note 3.
  • 58:1. Heb. text is very ambiguous; "gods" has also been rendered "indeed," "congregation," and "in silence."
  • 58.2b. So with Vrs.; Heb. "measure (?) out violence."
  • 58:7. So by transposition of one word and redistribution of consonants; Heb. "one who treads his arrows as though they were cut ofT."
  • 59:15b. So with LXX; Heb. "They stay all night."
  • 60:5—12. These vss. reappear as Ps. 108:6—13.
  • 60:8c. So in Ps. 108:9, Heb. here, "Over me shout in triumph, O Philistia."
  • 61:2c. So by slight change of vowels; Heb. "Thou wilt lead me."
  • 61:5b. So by slight change; Heb. "hast granted the inheritance."

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  • 65:5d. So by slight change; Heb. "the sea of far-off ones."
  • 66:12c. So with Vrs.; Heb. "to abundance."
  • 66:17a. So by slight changes; Heb. "It was raised under my tongue.".
  • 68:6a. So by slight change; Heb. "God makes the desolate inhabit a house."
  • 68.17b. So by new division of letters; Heb. "The Lord in them Sinai in the holiness."
  • 68:21b. So by slight change; Heb. "the hairy skull."
  • 68:24a. So with Vrs.; Heb. "may crush in blood."
  • 68:27a. So by change of vowels; Heb. "bless ye God."
  • 68:29a. So with Vrs. and some Heb. MSS; Heb. "Thy God commanded thy strength."
  • 68:30c. So by slight change; Heb. "trampling upon those delighting in silver."
  • 68.31a. So with Vrs.; Heb. "Let princes come," etc.
  • 68:35. So by change of two vowels; Heb. "It is Israel's God who gives strength and power to the people. Blessed be God."
  • 69:11a. So with Vrs.; Heb. "When I wept myself with fasting."
  • 69:23. So with some Vrs.; Heb. "And to prosperous ones (?) a trap."
  • 69:27b. So with LXX; Heb. "and of the pain of thy victims they tell."
  • 69:33. So by slight changes of vowels; Heb. "The humble will see; those who seek for God will be glad; and your heart will revive."
    1. This psalm is a duplicate, with slight textual changes, of Ps. 40:13—17.
  • 70:1. "Be pleased" is supplied from Ps. 40:13.
  • 70:3a. So with Ps. 40:15; Heb. here, "May they return."
  • 71:1—3. A duplicate, with slight variations, of Ps. 31:1—3.
  • 71:3a. So with Ps. 31:2b, Heb. here, "a rock of habitation."
  • 71:6c. So by slight changes; Heb. "my praise."
  • 71:15c. So in part, with Vrs.; Heb. "For I know not number (?)."
  • 72:5a. So with LXX; Heb. "May they fear thee," etc.
  • 73:4. So by different division of letters; Heb., "pangs to their death and healthy,' etc.
  • 73:10. So by slight change in last word of first line and different division of consonants in second line; Heb. "Therefore his people return hither,/ And waters of fulness are drawn off for them."
  • 73:20b. So with LXX; Heb. "in the city thou wilt despise, etc."
  • 73.21b. Literally, "I was pierced in my kidneys."
  • 73:24b. So by different division of consonants and repointing of the first two Hebrew words; Heb. "and afterward thou dost take me gloriously."
  • 74:5a. So by slight change; Heb. "as one brings in" for "in the passage."
  • 74:8a. So by slight change; Heb. "their progeny" for "We will Hellenize them."
  • 74:11b. So by slight change; Heb. "and thy right hand from within thy bosom consume."
  • 75:1b. So by redivision of consonants and with support of Vrs.; Heb. "and near i thy name."
  • 75:9a. So with LXX; Heb. "I will declare forever."
  • 75:10a. So by change of one consonant; Heb. "I will break off."
  • 76:4a. So by transposition of two consonants in first word; Heb. "Glorious (?) art thou."
  • 76:4a. So by slight change; Heb. "mightier than the mountains of prey."

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  • 78:48a. So with LXX; Heb. "to the hail."
  • 80:14. So as in vss. 3, 7, 19; Heb. "O God of hosts— repeat please," i.e., ditto.
  • 80:16a. So by change of one letter in first word; Heb. is unintelligible. -
  • 84:7b. So with some Vrs.; Heb. "He appears unto God in Zion."
  • 85:8c. So with LXX; Heb. "May they not return to folly."
  • 86:11c. So with Vrs.; Heb. "Make my heart one to fear, etc."
  • 87:4a. So by slight vowel changes; Heb. "on account of those knowing me; behold," etc.
  • 87:7a. So by slight change; Heb. "like men dancing."
  • 87:7b. So by change of vowels: Heb. "All my springs are in thee."
  • 88:1a. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "O GOD, God of my deliverance, by day," etc.
  • 89:33a. So by change of one consonant, with some manuscripts and some Vrs.; Heb. "I will not break off," etc.
  • 89:37b. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "and be a faithful witness in the skies."
  • 89:47a. So by slight change; Heb. "Remember, I, what is life."
  • 89:50a. So by slight change; Heb. "How I carry in my bosom all great ones, peoples."
  • 90 9 b. So with Vrs.; Heb. "We bring our years to a close like a sigh (?)•"
  • 96:1. This psalm is copied in I Chron. 16:23-33.
  • 97:36. So by slight change; Heb. "around his foes."
  • 97:100. So by slight changes; Heb. "They who love the LORD hate evil."
  • 99:36. So by slight change of vowel; Heb. connects with vs. 4, reading, "The strength of the king, who loves justice."
  • 100:36. So with the vowel text; consonantal text reads, "Ho made us and not we ourselves."
  • 10* 130. So with some Heb. MSS and Vrs.; Heb., "in smoke."
  • 104:25. So by slight change and with context; Heb. "there like ships."
  • 105 :22*. So with LXX; Heb. "That he might bind," etc.
  • 105 1286. So with LXX; Heb. "They did not rebel against his words."
  • 105:40*. So with Vrs.; Heb. "He asked," etc.
  • io6:7<r. So by slight change; Heb. "against the sea, at the sea of reeds."
  • 1 06:274. With Ezek. 20:23; Heb. here, "would let their descendants perish" (lit., "fail").
  • 107-3C. So according to context, with slight change; Heb. "from the sea."
  • 108:1-5. A duplicate of 57.7—11.
  • 108:40. So with 57:100,- Heb. here, "great from upon the heavens."
  • 108:6-13. A duplicate of 60:5-12.
  • 109:46. So according to context, with slight changes; Heb. "And I ... prayer."
  • 109.106. So with LXX; Heb. "May they search," etc.
  • 109:286. So with LXX; Heb. "They rose up and were ashamed," etc.
  • 110:60. So with Vrs.; Heb. "It is full of corpses."
  • in. An acrostic psalm, the lines beginning with the letters of the Hebrew alphabet taken in order.
    1. An acrostic psalm, the successive lines beginning with the letters of the Hebrew alphabet taken in order.
  • 1 18:126. So with Vrs.; Heb. "They will be quenched like," etc.

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  • 1 1 8 :i 30. So with LXX, Heb. "Thou didst thrust hard at me that I might fall."
  • 1 1 9. This acrostic psalm has twenty-two strophes, one for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet, each containing sixteen lines. Each alphabetical letter opens the first and each succeeding alternate line of its strophe.
  • 1 19:306. So with change of one consonant in last word; Heb. "I have set."
  • 119:1221. So with context and by change of two consonants; Heb. "Pledge thy servant," etc.
  • 1 19:160*. So with Vrs. and some Heb. MSS; Heb. "judgment."
  • 119.161*. So with vowels and Vrs.; Heb. consonants, "thy words."
  • izjizd. So by slight vowel change and with Vrs.; Heb. "his loved one."
  • 1 35 : 1 5-20. These vss. are a duplicate with modifications of Ps. 115 14-60 and 8— 1 1
  • 137:3*:. So by change of one consonant; Heb. is unintelligible.
  • 137:5^. So by transposition of one consonant; Heb. "May iny right hand forget.1*
  • 138:2*:. So with LXX; Heb. "magnified thy word over all thy name."
  • 138:3*. So with Vrs.; Hfb. "Thou didst make power restless in me."
  • i 39:110. So by slight change; Heb. "pant after me (?)" or "erase me (?)."
  • 139:14.0. So with Vrs.; Heb. "I am fearfully wonderful."
  • 139:160. So by transposition of the word "days" from the last line of this verse; Heb. is unintelligible:
  • Thy, eyes saw my unshapcn mass;
  • And in thy book they were all written 5
  • Days were formed, and there was not one among them.
  • 139:18*. So by slight change of vowels in one word; Heb. "When I awake, I am still with thec."
  • i39'20tf. So with consonants; vowels, "who declare thce [for an evil plan]."
  • 139:20*. So with some Vrs. \ Heb. "who take thy cities in vain."
  • i 39 240. So with LXX; Heb. "way of grief."
  • 140-90. So in part with LXX, Heb. om. negative and is difficult; lit., "Those encompassing me will be high as to the head."
  • 141:5. This verse interrupts the connection between vss. 4 and 6, and fits in better after vs. 3.
  • 141 :6, 7. These verses have been very poorly preserved. The rendering given here involves the transposition of the word "rock" from vs. 6 to vs. 7 and four simple corrections of errors. Heb. as it stands reads:

    Their chieftains will be hurled down by the sides of the rock;
    And they will hear my words that they are pleasant;
    Like one cleaving and splitting in the land,
    Our bones, etc. %

  • 143:10*:. So with Syr. and some Heb. MSS; Heb. "a level land."
  • 144:1-70. These vss. are based upon and condensed from parts of $s. 18.
  • 144.20. So by change and transposition of one consonant; Heb. "my grace and my fortress."
  • 144:20!. So with Vrs. and vowel text; Heb. "my people under me."
    1. An alphabetic acrostic, each letter of the alphabet in turn starting a group of two lines; but the «««-couplet is missing.
  • 145:5. So with LXX; Heb. "The splendor of thy glorious majesty,/ And the things of thy wonders I will tell."

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NOTES ON THE BOOK OF PROVERBS
...

  • 1:110. Heb. "for blood."
  • 1 :i90. So LXX; Heb. "So are the ways."
  • 2 :yb. So LXX; Heb. "And equity, every good course."
  • 2 : 1 80. Heb. "For she sinks down to death, her house."
  • 3 :80. So Vrs.; Heb. "your navel."
  • 3:100. So LXX; Heb. "with plenty."
  • 3:21. Heb. transposes the two lines.
  • 3:240. So LXX; Heb. "When you lie down."
  • 3:270. So LXX; Heb. "from its lords."
  • 3 .-340. So Vrs.; Heb. "If it be for scoffers, he scoffs."
  • 3 13 5 A. Heb. "But as for fools, one lifts up shame."
  • 4:10. Heb. "O sons."
  • 4:30, b. So LXX; Heb. "When I was a son to my father,/ Tender and only before my mother."
  • 4 -50, b. Heb. transposes the two lines.
  • 4:70. Heb. "The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom."
  • 4:230. So Vrs.; Heb. "Above all vigilance."
  • 5:10,3. Heb. "my wisdom . . . my reason."
  • 5 -20, b. Heb. "That you may keep vile counsels,/ And that your lips may prcsei ve knowledge."
  • 5 :60. So Vrs.; Heb. "Lest she tread a level path."
  • 5:70. So Vrs.; Heb. "O sons."
  • 5:90. So Vrs.; Heb. "your glory."
  • 5:9^. So Targurn; Heb. "to a cruel one."
  • 6:20. So LXX; Heb. "by the words of your mouth."
  • 6.50. So LXX; Heb. "from a hand."
  • 6:140, b. Heb. "In whose mind is perversity, who plots mischief at all times,/
  • Sows discord."
  • 6:22. The reference is to Wisdom.
  • 6.300. So MSS; official text "Men do not despise a theif."
  • 7:10. So LXX; Heb. "a woman."
  • 7:220. So LXX; Heb. "suddenly."
  • 7:230. So Vrs., in part-, Heb. "Or like fetters for the discipline of a fool." Tho lines have been slightly transposed.
  • 7:240. So LXX; Heb. "O sons."
  • 8:2*. So LXX; Heb. "the house of the streets."
  • 8:100. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "my instruction."
  • 8:146. So Vjs.; Heb. "I am reason."
  • 8:i6£. So LXX; Heb. "And nobles, all governors of the earth."
  • 9:16. So LXX; Heb. "has hewn."
  • 9 -7^. Heb. "it is his stain."
  • 9:90. So Vrs.; Heb. "Give to a wise man."
  • 9:130, b. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "A foolish woman is boisterous,/ She is simplicity, and knows not what."
  • i o :40. So Vrs.; Heb. "He becomes poor who deals with a slack hand."

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  • iu:6b. So LXX, in part; Heb. "But the mouth of the wicked is filled with violence" ( from nb).
  • 10:96. Heb. "will be known."
  • 10:1 oft. So LXXi Heb. "But a prating fool will fall (from 86).
  • 1 0:144. Heb. "repress knowledge."
  • 10:166. Heb. "to sin."
  • 10:18*. So LXXi Heb. "He who covers hatred is of lying lips."
  • 1 0:2 3 b. Heb. "it is wisdom."
  • 10:290. So Vrs.; Heb. "The way of the LORD is a stronghold to perfection."
  • 10 320. Heb. "know good will."
  • 1 1 :i 6b. So LXX; Heb. "ruthless men."
  • n :i$a. MSS and Vrs. "The son of righteousness"; Heb. "So righteousness."
  • 1 1 :i9b. So Vrs., Heb. "to his death."
  • 1 1 -256. MSS "will give himself rain"; Heb. corrupt.
  • ii :zja. Ili-b. "will seek favor."
  • n-28«. Heb. "will fall."
  • 1 1 -jotf. So LXX, Heb. "of a righteous man."
  • 1 1 .306. So LXX, in part; Heb. "But a wise man destroys men."
  • i 2 9<f. So Vrs.; Heb. "with a seivant to work for him."
  • 12:116. Heb. "is devoid of sense."
  • iz:i2a. Heb. "The wicked man desires the net of evil."
  • 12:12*. So LXX; Hi-b. "will give."
  • 12:1 3<r. So LXX, Heb. "is a snare of the bad man."
  • 12:141*. Heb. "will a man."
  • 12-17*. Heb. "He utters."
  • i 2 -25*. Heb. "let him sink it."
  • 1 2 .26*7. Heb. "The righteous man will search out his friend."
  • 12 2 7 b. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "But precious wealth of a man is diligent."
  • 1 2:28*. So MSS and Vrs., in part; Heb. "But the path of a way — let it not be for death'"
  • 1 3 .ia. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "A wise son a father's instruction."
  • i 3 211. Heb. "a man."
  • 13 66. Heb. "sin."
  • i 3 :86. Heb. "listens to no rebuke" (from ib).
  • 13 9*. So LXX; Heb. "will rejoice."
  • 13.10/7. Heb. "Through pride."
  • 1 3 -i ob. Heb. "with those who take advice."
  • 13:110. So Vrs.; Heb. "from a vapor."
  • 13 156. Heb. "faithless conduct is enduring."
  • i 3 : 1 6a. So Vrs. , Heb. "Every sensible man."
  • ; 3:216. So LXX; Heb. "will requite the righteous."
  • 14.3/7. Heb. "is a sprig of pride."
  • 14 9#. So LXX, in part; Heb. "A guilt-offering mocks fools."
  • 14:136. Heb. "And its end, joy may be sorrow."
  • 14 146. Heb. "from upon him."
  • 14:176. So LXX; Heb. "A man of evil designs will be hated."
  • 14:196. Heb. om. the verb.

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  • 14:240, b. So LXX, in part, Heb. "The crown of wise men is their riches j/ And the folly of fools is folly."
  • 14:25*. Heb. "is deceit."
  • 14:29*. Heb. "exalts folly."
  • 14:32*. So Vrs.; Heb. "in his death."
  • 14:33*. Heb. "But it is known in the heart of fools."
  • 14:34*. So LXX; Heb. "But sin is peoples' kindness."
  • i 5 -.20. Heb. "makes knowledge good."
  • 15 .6*. So LXX; Heb. "But in the income of the wicked is a thing troubled."
  • 15:190. So LXX, in part; Heb. "The way of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns."
  • 15 26*. So LXX; Heb. "But pleasant words are pure."
  • 15:33*. Heb. "is instruction in wisdom."
  • 16:110. So Vrs.; Heb. "Balance and honest scales belong to the LORD."
  • 16:130. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "kings."
  • 1 6 .1 60. Hob. "How much better it is."
  • 16:270. Heb. "A knavish man digs evil."
  • 17:1*. Heb. "the f castings of strife."
  • 17:4*. Heb. "Falsehood."
  • 17:1 00. Heb. "A rebuke sinks deeper into a man of intelligence."
  • 17:110. So Vrs.; Heb. "Only rebellion."
  • 17.19*. Heb. "who builds his gate high."
  • 17:26*. Heb. "for their uprightness."
  • 1 8 130. Heb. "With the wicked man."
  • 18 :io0. Lit. "The name of the LORD."
  • 1 8 :i i*. Heb. "And like a high wall in his imagination."
  • 18:15*. So LXX; Heb. "knowledge."
  • 18:190,*. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "A brother sinned against (?) is more than a fortified city}/ And disputes are like the bar of a castle."
  • 18 :240. So MSS and Vrs., in part; Heb. "A man of friends is to be crushed."
  • 19:1*. So MSS and Vrs., in part; Heb. "in his speech, ... a fool."
  • 19:74:. Heb. "He who pursues words, they are not."
  • 19:110. So Vrs.; Heb. "A man's good sense makes him forbearing."
  • 19:16*. Heb. "who despises his ways."
  • 19:27*. Cf. LXX; Heb. "To wander."
  • 20-2*. So Vrs.; Heb. "is angry with him."
  • 20:11*. Heb. "pure or straight."
  • 20-16*. So Syr.; Heb. "for others."
  • 20:180. Heb. "Plans are formed."
  • 20:26*. Heb. "And turns the wheel upon them."
  • 20-28*. So LXX; Heb. "by kindness."
  • 20:300. So LXXi Heb. "Bruises of a blow."
  • 21 :60. So Vrs.; Heb, "He gains."
  • 21 :6*. So LXX; Heb. "Is a bubble chased, those seeking death."
  • 21 :80. So LXX; Heb. "Crooked is the way of a man, and strange."
  • 2 1 :9*. Heb. "Than a quarrelsome wife and a house in common."
  • 21 :i20. Heb. "The righteousness has regard for the household of the wicked."
  • 21 :260. So LXX; Heb. "He is desirous of desires."

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  • 21 :28*. Heb. "But a man who hears will speak for ever."
  • 22:10. So Vrs.; Heb. "A name."
  • 22 140. Heb. "is the fear of the LORD."
  • 22:50. So Vrs. i Heb. "Thorns, snares."
  • 22:8*. So LXX, in part; Heb. "The rod of his wrath will fail."
  • 22:1 la. So Vrs.; Heb. om. "the LORD."
  • 22:1 20. Heb. "guard knowledge."
  • 22:17*. So LXX; Heb. "to know me."
  • 22:27*. So Vrs.; Heb. "Why should one take your bed."
  • 23:5*. Heb. "For it certainly makes itself wings."
  • 23:10*. Heb. "the ancient landmark."
  • 23:17*. Heb. "But in the fear of the LORD always."
  • 23:18*2. So Vrs.; Heb. "But there will be a future."
  • 23:28*. Heb. "And faithless men she adds among men."
  • 23:34*. So LXX, in part; Heb. "Asleep at the head of a rope (?)."
  • 23:35*. Heb. only "When shall I awake."
  • 24:5, . So Vrs.; Heb. "A wise man is in strength,/ And a man of knowledge strengthens might."
  • 24.70. Heb. "Wisdom is corals to a fool."
  • 24:90. So Vrs.; Heb. "of folly."
  • 24:11*. Heb. "And will you hold back?".
  • 24.21*. So LXX, Heb. "Meddle not with those who repeat (a thing)."
  • 24:28*. So LXX; Heb. "And do you deceive with your lips?"
  • 25:4*. So LXX; Heb. "And a vessel comes out for the smith."
  • 25 :80. So Symm.,Heb. "Go not out hastily to discuss."
  • 25 :9*. So Vulg.; Heb. "the secret of another."
  • 25.12*. Cf. LXX; Heb. "a wise reprover."
  • 25:150. Heb. "a ruler is persuaded."
  • 25:180. So LXX; Heb. "Like a hammerer."
  • 25:200. So LXX, in part; Heb. "Like one adorning himself with a garment on a cold day, vinegar upon soda."
  • 25:24*. Heb. "Than a quarrelsome wife and a house in common."
  • 25:27*. So LXX, in part; Heb. "And the investigation of their glory is glory."
  • 26:80. Heb. "Like the stowing away of a gem."
  • 26:10*. Heb. "And he who hires a fool, and he who hires passers-by."
  • 26:17*. So Vrs.; Heb. "who gets excited over."
  • 26:180. Heb. "Like a stupefied man."
  • 26:18*. Heb. "Firebrands, arrows, and death."
  • 26:23*. So LXX; Heb. "glowing lips."
  • 26:280. Heb. "hates those who are crushed by it."
  • 27:6*. So Vulg.; Heb. "suppliant."
  • 27 9*. Heb. "And the sweetness of his friend from counsel of soul."
  • 27:13*. Heb. "for an adulterous woman."
  • 27:23*. So LXX; Heb. "to herds."
  • 27:24*. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "Or does a crown to all generations?"
  • 28:30. So LXX; Heb. "A poor man, and an oppressor of the needy."
  • 2 8 : T 60. So Vrs.; Heb. "and one who is great in oppressions."
  • 28:18*. So Syr.; Heb. "into one."

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  • 28:23*. Heb. "after me."
  • 29 6ay b. Heb. "In a bad man's sin lies a snare}/ But a righteous man sings with joy."
  • 29:106. Heb. "And upright men — they seek his life."
  • 29.116. Su LXX, in part, Heb. "a wise man stills it behind."
  • 30.1*. Heb. "the prophetic utterance" for "from Massa."
  • 30-16, c. So MSS; Heb. "To Ithiel, to Ithiel and Ucal."
  • 30:156. Heb. only, "Give, give'"
  • 30:176. So LXX, Heb. "scorns to obey (?) a mother."
  • 30:316. Heb. "And a king alquin (?) with him."
  • 30:326. Heb. only, "Or if you have schemed."
  • 31 :ia. So Vrs.; Heb. "Lemuel a king, a prophetic utterance."
  • 31 -36. Heb. "Your ways to ruin kings."
  • 31:4*. Heb. "Lemuel."
  • 31:41. Heb. "For princes — where is strong drink?"
  • 31 X6. Heb. "of all the sons of passing by."
  • 31:216. Heb. "m scarlet."

NOTES ON THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES
...

  • i i. "Kohelefh," a difficult word, without precise- English equivalent. It probably means an offu kil of an assembly.
  • 3 'i i. "To refiain," so by regrouping of consonants; Heb. is unintelligible. Usual rendering "eternity" is not warranted.
  • 3:126. "To enjoy himself," so with context; Ileb. "to do good."
  • 3:156. "Youth," Heb. adds "the second," which really belongs with vs. 10.
  • 5:6. "Vows," so with context; Ileb. "words."
  • <j-8. "Ruthless," so by slight change, with context; Heb. "the- land."
  • 9.16. "My mind considered," so with LXX; Heb. unintelligible.
  • 9:2. "Futility," so with Vrs.; Heb. "everything."
  • 9:5. "Remembrance," so with context, Heb. "reward."
  • 10 -i. So in part with Vrs. and with context; Heb. "Dead flies make the perfumer's ointment stink, bubble up, more precious than wisdom, than honor, is a little folly."
  • 10.1 50. So by new division of words; Heb. is ungrammatical and untranslatable.
  • T 1 156. "Into," so with some Heb. MSS; Heb. "like."
  • 12:11. "Sledge," so by slight change of vowels; Heb. "owners of (collections)."

NOTES ON THE SONG OF SONGS
...

  • i 2.a. So by change of one letter; Heb. "let him kiss me."
  • i -26. So by change of one letter; Ileb. "his mouth."
  • i 46. So Syr.; Heb. "let the king bring me into his chamber."
  • i 6r. So Theodotion in Syro-hexaplor; Heb. "my mother's sons have burned me."
  • 1 .1 26. So by change of one letter; Heb. "my nard."
  • 1:13/1. The Hebrew word translated "beloved" means literally "uncle, relative," but in this book is a term of endearment.
  • z 4# . So Heb. consonantal text and Vrs.; Heb. as vocalized, "let him bring."
  • 2 -46. So Kethibh and Vrs.; Qere "his banner."

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  • l\d. So Vrs.; Heb. om. "I called him, but he did not answer me."
  • 3 :ior. So by slight change; Heb. "with love."
  • 3:10/1. So by deletion of one letter; Heb. inserts "from" before "maidens of Jerusalem."
  • 3 :iiff. So LXX; Heb. inserts "O maidens of Zion" after "gaze."
  • 4:8*, b. So Kethibh and Vrs.; Qere "with me from Lebanon."
  • 4:12*. So Heb. MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "a fountain enclosed."
  • 5:46. "My heart," literall; "my bowels."
  • 5 :i3*. So LXX; Heb. "towers of perfumes."
  • 6:12. Text and translation uncertain. The Hebiew word translated "lover" means literally "relative," but like similar words in this book is here a term of endearment.
  • 7:4^. So by transfer from vs. 5^ and change of one letter; Heb. has "your head upon you is like Carmel" at the beginning of vs. 5.
  • 7 6b. So Syr.; Heb. "in delights."
  • 7:9*:. So by slight change, Heb. "for my bclo\ed."
  • 7-9</. So Vrs.; Heft, "the lips of the sleepers."
  • 8:z£. So Vrs.; Heb. "that you might teach me."

NOTES ON THE BOOK OF ISAIAH
...

  • i :jc. Heb. "of strangers."
  • i -8£. Heb. "like a besieged city."
  • i :\za. So MS; Heb. "to appear my face."
  • i :; id. So LXX; Heb. "guilt" for "fasting."
  • 1 :25b. Heb. "like lye."
  • i :29*. So MSS, Heb. "For they."
  • 1 13 i b. So Vrs.; Heb. "his maker."
  • 2:6*1. So Vrs.; Heb. "thou hast forsaken thy people."
  • z:6c. Heb. only, "are full of the east."
  • 2\i2c. So LXX; Heb. "and it will be brought Urn ."
  • 2:16*. So LXX; Heb. "pleasant imagery."
  • 2-20&. So Vrs., Heb. "For the digging of pits" (?).
  • z:2o<t. So Vrs.; Heb. "they made."
  • 3:10*. Heb. "Say (plur.), O righteous one!"
  • 3-13^. So Vrs.; Heb. "peoples."
  • 3:260. Heb. "her gates."
  • 4:5, 6. So LXX, in part; Heb. "for over all glory is a canopy. And a bower will be a shade," etc.
  • 5 :4£. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "in it."
  • $ :<)a. Heb. only, "In my ears the LORD of hosts."
  • 5:13*:. Heb. "men of hunger"
  • 5:14*:. Heb. "her rank, and her rabble, and her mob."
  • 5:15—16. An insertion from 2-9 fT.
  • 5-17*. So LXX; Heb. "fat strangers."
  • 5 26a. Heb. "nations."
  • 6.1 if. So Vrs.; Heb. "be wasted."
  • 6:130. An explanatory clause, not found in LXX.

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  • 7:66. So LXX; Heb. "Tabeal," that is, "No good," Tabeel meaning "God is good."
  • 7 :8c. A later interpretation of vs. 90.
  • 7:11*. So Vrs.; Heb. "ask it deep."
  • 8:2*. So Vrs.; Heb. "And let me pet."
  • 8:6c. Heb. "And rejoice in Rezin."
  • 8:90. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "Raise an uproar (?), you peoples, and be dumb-founded."
  • 8:120, b. Heb. "a conspiracy" for "holy."
  • 8:226. So LXX; Heb. "into murk they are driven."
  • 9:4*. Heb. "the staff."
  • 9:56. Heb. "rolled in blood."
  • 9 :gc. Heb. om. "Who have spoken."
  • 9:11/1. Heb. "the adversaries of Re/in."
  • 9:175. Heb. "will not rejoice in."
  • 9:2oc. So Vrs.; Heb. "the flesh of his arm."
  • 10:5*. Heb. inserts "it is in their hand" after "staff."
  • 10:126. So LXX; Heb. "I will punish."
  • i o : i 30". Heb. "That I may remove."
  • io:i3/»£- So Vrs., in part; Heb. "That I may bring down inhabitants like a mighty one."
  • 10:15^. So MSS; Heb. "those who wield it."
  • 10:256. Heb. "shall be upon their destruction."
  • 10:276, c. Heb. "and his yoke from your neck,/ And a yoke will be destroyed from the face of oil."
  • 10:290,6. So LXX, in part; Heb. "They have crossed the Pass,/ Geba is our bivouac."
  • 10:306. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "O poor Anathoth!"
  • 1 1 :4t. Heb. "the earth" for "the ruthless."
  • 11 :6f. So Vrs.; Heb. "and the falling together."
  • 11:70. Heb. "will graze."
  • 1 1 :r 10. So LXX, in part; Heb. "add his hand a second time."
  • ii :i50. So Vrs.; Heb. "will utterly destroy."
  • 1 1 :i 56. Heb. attaches this line to the end of the following.
  • 12:1**,;. So Vrs.; Heb. "Let thine anger turn back, and comfort me."
  • i2:2f. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "For Jah the LORD is my strength and a song."
  • 1 3 :4f , d. So Targum; Heb. "kingdoms of nations."
  • 13:100. Heb. om. the verb.
  • 1 3 : i 30. So LXX; Heb. "I shall cause the heavens to tremble."
  • 13 :2i6. So LXX; Heb. "their houses."
  • 13:220. So Vrs.; Heb. "in his widows."
  • 14:20. Heb. "And peoples will take them."
  • 1 4 :±c. So Vrs. $ Heb. "the exactress of gold" ( ? ) .
  • 1 4:64*. So Vrs.; Heb. "With persecution."
  • 14:126. So Vrs. $ Heb. "Wail ! » for "O Lucifer."
  • 14:120*. So LXX; Heb. "on the nations."
  • 14:171:, 0*. Heb. "Who opened not his prisoners home."
  • 14:196. So Vrs.; Heb. "a hateful branch."

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  • 14:3°*. Heb. "The first-born of the poor shall feed."
  • 14:30^:. So Vrs.i Heb. "your root."
  • i4'.3o</. SoVulg.; Heb. "he."
  • 15:16,^. So Vrs.; Heb. "in the night when."
  • 1 5 .za. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "He has gone up to Bajith and to Dibon."
  • 15:36. Heb. only, "On her roofs."
  • 15 :4C. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "the armed men of Moab shout."
  • 15:9*. "Dimon," probably an alliterative synonym for Dibon.
  • 16:1*, 6. Heb. "Send a lamb, O ruler of a land."
  • 16:4*. So Vrs.; Heb. "my outcasts, O Moab."
  • 1 6 \AfC . Heb. "Spoliation."
  • 1 6 4^. So Vrs.; Heb. "have vanished."
  • i6:7£T. So vs. i ir (cf. Jer. 48:310; Heb. here "Kir-harescth."
  • i6:jil. Heb. "you moan."
  • i6-io/. So LXX; Heb. "I have stilled."
  • \6.nd. 6m. in Heb.
  • 17:1^, ifl. So LXX, in part; Heb. "The cities of Aroer are deserted."
  • i7'.ic. So LXX; Heb. om. the verb.
  • 17:5*. So Vrs.; Heb. "a reaping."
  • 1 7 -6c. So LXX; Heb. "on her boughs, a fruit tree."
  • 1 7:9*7, 6. So LXX, Heb. "On that day will his cities of refuge be like the deserting of the wooded height and the summit."
  • 18-7*. So Vrs.; Heb. "of a people."
  • 19.70. So LXX, in part; Heb. "Bare places are on the Nile, on the brink of the Nile."
  • 19:96. So Vrs.; Hrb. "who are carded."
  • T9:i2r. So Vrs.; Heb. "And know."
  • 19:14*. So LXX; Heb. "within her."
  • 19:186. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "The city of destruction."
  • 19.20^. Heb. "a deliverer and a champion, he will save them."
  • 19.25*. So LXX; Heb. "whom."
  • 21 :ib. Negeb, the rolling pasture-land in the south of Judah.
  • 21-8*. Heb. "A lion I"
  • 21:146. So Vrs.; Heb. "They have welcomed."
  • 22:3^. So LXX; Heb. "All of you who were found."
  • 22:6*. Heb. adds the unrelated words, "with chariot, mankind, horsemen."
  • 22:196. So Vrs.5 Heb. "he will pull."
  • 23:1^. So vs. 14; Heb. here, "For it has been spoiled from a house."
  • 23:2, 3. Heb. unintelligible.
  • 23 '.4*. Heb. "O Zidon, for the sea has said."
  • 23:50. Heb. "like the news of Tyre."
  • z$:i)Ctd. Heb. "Of all the glory, to dishonor/ All the honored of the earth."
  • 24:36. So LXX; Heb. "And it."
  • 24:4^. Heb. "The height of the people of the earth languishes."
  • 24:230*. Heb. attaches "and in Jerusalem" to the previous line, and then reads only "And before his elders, glory."
  • i$:2C,5b. So LXX; Heb, "strangers" for "the proud."

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  • 2 5 .-40*. Heb. "a storm of a wall."
  • 25 .-50. Heb. reads the second phrase after 56.
  • 25:5*-. Heb. "he stills."
  • 25:80. Heb. "He has destroyed."
  • 25:120. Heb. "thy walls."
  • 26:7*1. Heb. "to the righteous," with "upright" as a note after "even."
  • 26:160, b. So LXX, in parti Heb. "they sought thee; They melted a charm (?), thy chastening was on them."
  • 26:190. Heb. "my bodies."
  • 26:196. So Vrs.i Heb. "Awake and sing for joy, you who dwell in the dust!"
  • 27:2*. Heb. om. "will it be said."
  • 27:26. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "vineyard of foaming wine."
  • 27:6*. Heb. "Those who come" for "On that day."
  • 27.76. So Vrs.i Heb. "those who were slain by them."
  • 27:8*. Heb. "didst thou proceed."
  • 28 -ir. Heb. adds "those prostrated by wine."
  • 28 .36. The verb in Heb. is plural.
  • 28 4C. So yrs«i Ht-b. "her early fig."
  • 28 :i jr. So Vrs. 5 Heb. "a seer."
  • 28:166. So Vrs.i IK'b. "I— he has laid."
  • 28:16*. Heb. "shall not make haste."
  • 28 :i 80. So Vrs.; Heb. "will be expiated."
  • 28:186. So Vrs.i Heb. "your vision."
  • 28-240. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. adds "to sow."
  • 28 :25r. So Vrs. i Heb. "Wheat in a row (? ) and barley in a proper place (? )."
  • z8.28r, </. Heb. "But when he has rolled his wagon-wheel and horsemen over it,/ He does not crush it."
  • 29:10. "Altar-hearth," a metaphor applied to Jerusalem.
  • 29-50. Heb. "your strangers."
  • 29.76. Heb. "their host."
  • 29:106. Heb. inserts the explanatory words, "the prophets" and "the seers."
  • 29:136. Heb. attaches "with their mouth" to the next line.
  • 29.13/A So Vrs.; Heb. "they have put their thoughts far from me."
  • 29:226. Heb. "Concerning the house of Jacob."
  • 3o:6c. Heb. "and lion from them."
  • 30:76. Lit. "Rahab are they, a sitting still."
    1. 8</. So Vrs.i Heb. "Forever, forever."
  • 3o:i2f. Heb. "in violence."
  • 30:140. So LXXi Heb. "And he will break it."
  • 30:190. Heb. "you will dwell."
  • 3o:2oc,<rf. So MSS; Heb. "teachers."
  • 30:210. So Vrs.i Heb. "when you trust »or turn to left.**
  • 30.24*-. So Vrs.i Heb. "is winnowing."
  • 30 270. Lit. "the. name of the LORD."
  • 3o.28</. Heb. om. "to place."
  • 30.320. So MSS i Heb. "rod of foundation."
  • 30.32^. Lit. "with battles of waving."
  • 32 :i6. So Vrs.; Heb. "And as for princes, they."

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  • 32 .-3*. Heb. "will not see."
  • 32-6*. So Vrs. 5 Heb. "will do."
  • 32:12/1. Heb. "Beating" (masc.).
  • 32:13^. Heb. "Because."
  • 32:19*7. Heb. "And it will hail (?) in the coming down of the forest."
  • 33 :2C. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "their arm."
  • 33 :4*. Heb. "your spoil will be gathered (like) the gathering of locusts."
  • 33:6*. Ileb. "Your fortune."
  • 33.6c. Heb. "his treasure."
  • 33:7/1. Heb. "their Erels."
  • 33:8*. Heb. "cities" for "its witnesses."
  • 33:20*. Heb. "Behold."
  • 33 .2i£. Heb. "a majestic one, the LORD."
  • 33 :23<;. Ht'b. "Then will prey of spoil be shared."
  • 34-4*. Heb. "all the host of heaven."
  • 34:7*. Heb. "with them" for "with fadings."
  • 34 :ya. Heb. "her rivers."
  • 34:1 ic. Heb. "And he."
  • 34:12*, b. So LXX; Heb. only, "Her nobles."
  • 34:13^. So LXX; Heb. "Gras's for ostriches."
  • 34:15$. Heb. "hatch in her shadow."
  • 34:15^. So the- variant reading inserted after i6£; Heb. here, "Each her mate."
  • 34IT6C', So MSS and Vrs., Heb. "my mouth."
  • 35 :za. Heb. attaches "like the crocus" to the preceding line.
  • 35 :yc, d. Heb. only, "In the haunt of j«ukals her lying down,/ Grass for reeds and rushes."
  • 35:8*. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. adds "and a way."
  • 35 *d. Heb. "for them."
  • 36:5$. So MSS. and II Kings 18:40^ Heb. here, "I have said that," etc.
  • 36:19^-. So Vrs. of II Kings 18 345 Heb. here om. "Where are the gods . . . Samaria?"
  • 3 7 :ga. Heb. "And he heard news."
  • 37:18. So MSS and II Kings 19:17, in part, Heb. here, "have dried up all the lands."
  • 37:20$. So II Kings 19:191 Heb. here om. "God."
  • 37:24, 25. So LXX, Heb. "That I may cut . . . pierce ... dry up."
  • 37:241?. So II Kings 19:23$ Heb. here "height" for "retreat."
  • 37:25$. So II Kings 19.24; Heb. here om. "foreign."
  • 37:277. So II Kings 19-26; Heb. hero "And a field of corn before." etc.
  • 37:28*?. Heb. only, "I know your sitting."
  • 37 =29$. Heb. "your careless ease" for "your rioting."
  • 38:7/2. Heb. only, "And this is," etc.
  • 38:9*. Heb. "A writing."
  • 38.1 \a. So MSS, Heb. "Jah Jah."
  • 38:11^. So MSS; Heb. "of cessation."
  • 38 :i2$. Heb. "my shepherd's."
  • 38-12^. Heb. "I have rolled up."
  • 38:120, 13*;. Heb. "thou givest inc."

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  • 38:13*. Heb. "I liken."
  • 38:14^. Heb. "violence is done to me."
  • 38:15/1. Heb. "or can he say to me."
  • 38:17*. So Vrs.; Heb. "thou hast become attached to me."
  • 38:18*. So Vrs.i Heb. "thy faithfulness."
  • 39:1*. So LXX; Heb. "a letter and a present."
  • 40:6*. So Vrs.; Heb. "he will say."
  • 40:61*. SoVrs.; Heb. "its kindness."
  • 40:1 on. So Vrs.; Heb. "as a mighty one."
  • 40:11*, c. Heb. "he gathers the lambs, And carries them."
  • 40:15*:. Heb. "he weighs the coast-lands like a grain."
  • 40:191. Heb. "And silver links a goldsmith."
  • 40:200. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "He who is impoverished with respect to a temple-offering."
  • 40:2 ic. Heb. "Have you not understood the foundations."
  • 40.261. So Vrs.; Heb. "and because he is strong in power."
  • 41:1*. Heb. "renew their strength" (from 40-310).
  • 41:14*. So LXX, in part; Heb. "You men of Israel."
  • 41 :i4tf*. Goel, "Redeemer," lit. "the nearest of kin," intrusted with the duties of support, defense, vindication, and the like.
  • 41 :zic. Lit. "strong things," the reference being to the heathen gods.
  • 41 -MO. So Vrs.; Heb. "Let them bring near."
  • 41 -.221, /. Heb. transposes the two clauses.
  • 41 -.24*. Heb. "is of an ephah."
  • 41 :z$c. Heb. "shall come rulers."
  • 41:270. Heb. "First to Zion, behold, behold them'"
  • 41 :280. Heb. "That I might see, and there was no one."
  • 41 :290. Heb. "wickedness" for "nought."
  • 42:4/1. So MS and Vrs.; Heb. "nor run."
  • 42:6*, c. So Vrs.; Heb'. "That I may grasp . . . keep . . . make."
  • 42 :ioc. Heb. "Those who go down to the sea."
  • 42:110. So Vrs.; Heb. "lift up" for "rejoice."
  • 42 : i $c. Heb. "into coast-lands."
  • 42:19**. Heb. "blind" for "deaf."
  • 42:20*. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "he hears not."
  • 42 :24C. Heb. "we sinned."
  • 42:250. So Vrs.; Heb. "a glow, his anger."
  • 43:4*:. Heb. "Mankind."
  • 43 '.yd. Heb. "announce former things to us."
  • 43:10*. Heb. "My servant." •
  • 43:10^. Heb. "you may know."
  • 43:124*. So Vrs., in part; Heb. only, "I am God."
  • 43:!4>/- HOD- omy> "And the Chaldeans on their ships of joyful shouting."
  • 43:22*. So Vrs.; Heb. "For you have weaned yourself."
  • 43:280,*. So LXX; Heb. "That I might profane the princes of the sanctuary,/ And give up Jacob."
  • 44:40. So LXX; Heb. "grow up among grass."
  • 44:5*. So Symm.i Heb. "shall call on the name of Jacob."

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  • 44 :jc. Heb. "Since I appointed the ancient people, and the things to come."
  • 44:80*. Heb. "Is there a God apart from me? Yes, there is no Rock."
  • 44:1 20. Heb. inserts "an axe and" after "iron."
  • 44:14*. So LXXi Heb. "a pine" for "the LORD."
  • 44:16*, b. So Vrs.; Heb. "on its half he eats flesh, roasts roast, till he is satisfied."
  • 44:260. So Vrs.$ Heb. "his servant."
  • 44:28*-, d. So Vrs.; Heb. "And saying, . . . And the foundations of the temple shall be laid."
  • 45 -8r, d. Heb. "Let the earth open,/ And let them bring forth salvation."
  • 45 -96. Heb. "A pot with earthen pots."
  • 45 :$d. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "Or your work, 'How handless he is!1 "
  • 45:1 ic. Heb. "Ask me of the things to come concerning my children."
  • 45 :i 50. So MSS of Vulg.; Heb. "thou art a God who hides himself."
  • 45:160, b. So LXX; Heb. "are all of them,/ Together the makers."
  • 45 :zi0, b. Heb. transposes the two lines.
  • 45 :240. So Vrs.; Heb. " *Only in the LORD,' one has said to me."
  • 46:16, c. So Vrs., in parti Heb. "to beasts and to cattle,/ The things borne by you arc laid as a load for the weary."
  • 46:4r. Heb. "I have done."
  • 46:80. So Syr.; Heb. "and show yourselves men" (?).
  • 46:1 10. Heb. "a bird of prey."
  • 46:120. So LXX; Heb. "strong-hearted."
  • 47:30 40. So LXX, Heb. "Vengeance will I take, and will not be appeased by any man./ Our Redeemer," etc.
  • 47:50. Heb. transposes the two phrases.
  • 47:100. Heb. "your wickedness."
  • 47:1 1/. Heb. only, "shall not know."
  • 48:1*:. Cf. Vrs.; Heb. "the waters of Judah."
  • 48:36. So Vrs.i Heb. "that I might announce them."
  • 48 60, b. Heb. "You heard; sec all of it'/ And you — will you not show it?"
  • 48-76. So Vrs.; Heb. "and you have not heard."
  • 48.11$. So Vrs.i Heb. "it" for "my name."
  • 48:146. So MSS i Heb. "among them."
  • 48:14*:. Heb. "the LORD — his lover would perform."
  • 48:14^. So LXXi Heb. "and his arm the Chaldeans."
  • 48-156. So Vrs.i Heb. "and he will make his way prosperous."
  • 48:i6f/, e. Hch. "And now has the Lord GOD sent me and his spirit."
  • 48:196. So LXXi Heb. "The offspring of your bowels like its bowels."
  • 48-i9f. So LXX; Heb. "his name."
  • 49:5*. Heb. "That I may be honored."
  • 49 :jc. So LXX, in parti Heb. "the despiser of men, the abhorrer of people."
  • 49:8*2. So Vrs.i Hob. "That I may keep you, and make you."
  • 49:9*;. So LXX; Heb. om. "all."
  • 49:110,6. So Vrs.i Heb. "my mountains ... my highways."
  • 49:170. So Vrs.i Heb. "your children."
  • 49:190, 6. Heb. om. the verbs.
  • 49 :246. So Vrs. i Heb. "a righteous man's."
  • 5o:i£. Heb. "your transgressions."

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  • 50:116. So Vrs.; Heb. "gird brands round them."
  • 51:1^. Heb. inserts "hole" after "quarry."
  • 5 1 :zd. So Vrs.; Heb. "That I might bless him, and multiply him."
  • 51 14, . So MSS and Syr.; Heb. "O my people, O my nation."
  • 51:5*. So LXX; Heb. attaches "I will bring in a moment" to previous vs., and begins this verse with "My deliverance is near."
  • 51:6*. Heb. "like so."
  • 51 :i2. Cf. Vrs.; Heb. "Who are you? and you were afraid.'
  • 5i:i6r. So Syr.; Heb. "planted."
  • 5i:i7/, 22/. So Vrs.; Heb. inserts "cup" after "bowl."
  • 51 :i9^. So Vrs.i Heb. "Who— I will comfort you?"
  • 52:2*. Heb. "Sit down, O Jerusalem."
  • 52:6$. Heb. "Therefore on that day."
  • 52 :i4*. So Vrs. 5 Heb. "at thee."
  • 53:2*. Heb. "before him."
  • 53:8*. Heb. "his generation."
  • 53:8</. So LXX, in part; Heb. "For the transgression of my people a stroke was to him."
  • 53 :gb. So LXX, in part; Heb. "And with the rich in his death."
  • 53:11*. So MS; Heb. "Through his knowledge."
  • 54:2*. So Vrs.; Heb. "And let them stretch."
  • 54:9/1. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "the waters of Noah."
  • 54:11*. So LXX; Heb. "in antimony."
  • 56:5*:. So Vrs.; Heb. "give him."
  • $6: 1 0*7. Heb. "his watchmen."
  • 57-2*. Heb. "They rest upon their beds."
  • 57:3:. So Vrs.; Heb. "and you committed harlotry."
  • 57 5</. So LXX; Heb. "Under."
  • 57 :8//. So LXX, Heb. oin. the line.
  • 57'n*. So Vrs.; Heb. "and from everlasting."
  • 57:13**, b. So LXX, in part; Heb. "and they shall not avail you" (at the close of vs. 12). "When you cry for help, those whom you have gathered shall save you."
  • 57:170, b. So LXX; Heb. "Because of the sin of their cove to us ness I was angry, so as to smite them, hiding my face, so as to be angry."
  • 57.1^/1. The phrase "says the LORD," is taken from vs. 19, where "says the LORD, and I will heal them" is the corrected variant.
  • 58.10/1. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "your soul."
  • 58:1 if. Heb. "strengthen" (?).
  • 58:13*. So LXX; Heb. "To do."
  • 59:8^. So Vrs.; Heb. "in it."
  • 59:18/1,*. So LXX; Heb. "According to deserts, according shall he pay,/ Wrath to his enemies, recompense to his foes;/ To the coast-lands shall he make recompense."
  • 59:19*. So MSS; Heb. "may fear."
  • 59-20*. So LXX; Heb. "And for those who turn from transgression in Jacob."
  • 59:21/1. Heb. "my covenant regarding them."
  • 60 :9«. Heb. "For the coast-lands shall wait for me."
  • 6o:nd. Heb. "led by them."

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  • 6o:i9&. So Vrs.; Heb. "the moon for brightness."
  • 6 1 :i/. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "opening of eyes" (?).
  • 61 :$ctd. Heb. "Oil of joy instead of mourning,/ A garment of praise," etc.
  • 6 1 :ja. Heb. "your shame."
  • 61 :;£. Heb. "contempt shall they rejoice in (?) as their lot."
  • 61 :8fc. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "robbery with burnt-offering."
  • 6 1 :io*. So Vrs. $ Heb. "officiates as priest his crown."
  • 6z:$b. Heb. "your sons."
  • 63 :ia> b. So LXX, in part; Heb. "Who is this that comes from Eclom,/, In crimson garments from Bozrah?"
  • 6 3: if, /. So Vrs.; Heb. "have spoken in deliverance,/ Mighty to save."
  • 63 :zfl. So Vrs.; Heb. "Why red as to thy clothing?"
  • 63 13-6. So Vrs.; Heb. "That I might tread, trample, besprinkle,'" etc.
  • 63:6*. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "make them drunk."
  • 63:90-*;. So LXX; Heb. "In all their distress he was distressed,/ And the angel of his presence saved them."
  • 63:110. Heb. "And one recalled.'*
  • 63:1 1 b. Heb. "Mosos his people."
  • 63:1 ir. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "brought them up."
  • 63:14*. So Vrs.; Heb. "give them rest."
  • 63-15^. Heb. "Which ha\e restrained themselves toward me."
  • 63:18^. So LXX, in part; Heb. "For a little while have they possessed thy holy people" (?).
  • 64:2. Heb. repeats at the close, "come down,/ That the mountains mi^ht quake at thy presence" (from 63 '19).
  • 64:3/7. Heb. "We have not given ear."
  • 64:40,6. So Vrs.; Heb. "the man who rejoices (?) and does right,/ Those who remember thee in thy ways."
  • 64:4^. So Vrs., in part, Heb. "On those of old, that we might be saved."
  • 64:6*1. So Vrs.; Heb. "hast melted us by the power of our sins."
  • 65 .ia. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "asked not."
  • 65 :id. So Vrs.; Heb. "was not called by thy name."
  • 65:5*. Heb. "for I am holier than you."
    1. 6b. Heb. adds "And I will requite on their bosom" (cf. 7/.).
  • 65:7/1. So Vrs.; Heb. "your."
  • 65 :7/. Heb. only, "On their bosom."
  • 65:18/1. So Vrs.; Heb. "But rejoice and exult."
  • 65 .2o</. Heb. "the sinner, being a hundred years old."
  • 66:2^. So Vrs.; Heb. "came into being."
  • 66:3*. Heb. om. "sheds."
  • 66 15 f. So LXX; Heb. "be glorious."
  • 66:9*. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "Will say."
  • 66:12^. So LXX; Heb. "And you will suckle."
  • 66:15*. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "in fire."
  • 66:i8£. So Vrs.; Heb. "And I — their works and their thoughts — has come" (fern.)
  • 66:191. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "Pul and Lydia, those who draw the bow."

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NOTES ON THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH
...

  • 1:11,12. There is a play of words on shaked, "almond-tree," and shoked> "watching."
  • 1.14*. So LXX; Heb. "be opened" for "boil."
  • i -i 50. So LXX; Heb. "all the families of the kingdoms."
  • i :i 8*. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "bronze walls."
  • 2 : i oc, Heb. "Lo ' there has been," etc.
  • 2:i2b. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "Be shocked, be waste, exceedingly.1*
  • 2:16. Heb* "feed on" for "break."
  • 2:20*. So Vrs.; Heb. "I broke ... I burst."
  • 2:2 if,*/. Heb. "changed to me into the rank shoots of a foreign vine."
  • 2:30*. So Vrs.i Heb. "They took."
  • 2:30^. So Vrs.; Heb. "Your sword."
  • 2:31*, b. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "O you generation, see the word of the LORD!"
  • 2-31^. Heb. "a land of thick darkness" (?).
  • 2:34*. So Vrs.; Heb. "your skirts."
  • 2 :34C. Heb. "did I find them."
  • 2:360, b. So Vrs.; Heb. "Why do you go away so much to change your course?"
  • 3.1*. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. prefixes "Saying."
  • 3 i<\ So LXX; Heb. "Can he return to her again?"
  • l-.id. So Vrs.; Heb. "that land."
  • l\6b. So Vrs.; Heb. "she is going."
  • 3:8*. So Vulg.; Heb. inserts "and I saw" after "Judah saw."
  • 3:20*7. So Vrs.; Heb. "through her lover."
  • 3:230, b. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "Truly in vain from the hills, tumult, the mountains."
  • 3 .244. "The shameful thing:" that is, Baal.
  • 4:3*. So MSS and Vrs.i Heb. om. "the citizens of."
  • 4:4*. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "foreskins."
  • 4:10*. So Vrs.; Heb. "And I said."
  • 4:13*?. So Vrs.; Heb. "like clouds."
  • 4:160. Heb. "the nations."
  • 4:i6c. Heb. "Watchers."
  • 4:191. Heb. "For you ha\e heard, O my soul."
  • 4:2c,d. So LXX, Heb. reads "I have purposed" after "I have spoken.
  • 4:29^. So Vrs.; Heb. "city" for "land."
  • 4:29f. So LXX; Heb. om. "They crawl into caves."
  • 5 :ja. Heb. om. "is the oracle of the LORD."
  • 5:80. So Vrs.; Heb. "pampered horses, rising early in the morning."
  • 5:10^. Heb. "make not a full end."
  • 5 :i 3<r. Heb. om. the line.
  • 5:14^. Heb. "you have spoken."
  • 5:190. Heb. "when you ask."
  • 5 :igb. So Syr.; Heb. om. "hus says the LORD."
  • 5 :22*. Heb. "They may toss."
  • 6:20, b. So LXX, in part; Heb. "The fair and luxuriant one have I silenced/ The daughter of Zion."

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  • 6:6d. So LXX, in part; Heb. "she is the city to be punished."
  • 6:9b. So Vrs.; Heb. "They shall glean out."
  • 6:i2b. Heb. "and their wives."
  • 6:14*. So MSS and Vrs. (cf. 8:11); Heb. om. "the daughter of."
  • 6 :i fa. Heb. "over you."
  • 6:180. Heb. "hear, O nations, and know, O congregation."
  • 6:27*. So LXX, in part; Heb. "an assayer, a fortress."
  • 6:29*4. So Vrs.; Heb. "The wicked ones are not drawn out."
  • 7:2*. So 26:2; Heb. here "gate" for "court."
  • 7 . i 80. So Vrs.; Heb. "work of the heavens."
  • 7 1246. Heb. "followed the counsels, the stubbornness."
  • 7 -250. Heb. "though I sent to you all my servants the prophets by day."
  • 7 .3 1 a. So Vrs.; Heb. "high places."
  • 7:32*. Heb. "it shall no longer be called 'Topheth,' nor, 'The valley,' " etc.
  • 8:3^. So Vrs.; Heb. inserts "that are left" after "places."
  • 8-4*. So Vrs.; Heb. "If they fall."
  • 8:5/7. So LXX; Heb. "Why, then, has she fallen, this people, Jerusalem."
  • 8.130. So LXX, in part; Heb. "I will utterly consume them."
  • 8:1 3/. Heb. "And I gave them tho&e who shall pass over them" (? ).
  • 8:180. So Vrs.; Heb. "If I could comfort myself against sorrow."
  • 8 1196. Heb. "From a land of distant ones."
  • 9.36, c. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "Their bow, falsehood, and not through truth."
  • 9:60. So LXX, in part; Heb. "Your dwelling is in the rnidst of fraud on fraud."
  • 9 :jd. So Vrs.; Heb. "In face of the daughter of my people."
  • 9:100. So Vrs.; Heb. "will I raise."
  • 9:15$. So LXX; Heb. "I will feed them, this people."
  • 9:1 7f. Heb. "that they may come and make haste."
  • 9:19^. So Vrs.; Heb. "Our dwellings have cast us out."
  • 9:220. So Vrs.; Heb. prefixes, "Speak, 'Thus says the LORD.'"
  • 9:25^. Heb. "are uncircumcised in their uncircumcision."
  • 9:260. Heb. inserts "Judah" after "Egypt."
  • 9:26*. So Vrs.; Heb. om. "in the flesh."
  • 10:2^. So Vrs.-, Heb. "Learn not to the way."
  • 10:4^. So Targum; Heb. "fasten them."
  • io:4f. So LXX; Heb. om. "And set it up."
  • i o :8A. So Vrs.; Heb. "The instruction of their idols."
  • 10:9^. So Targum; Heb. "from Uphaz."
  • 10:9*:. Heb. "and the hands of the goldsmith."
  • 10:11. An Aramaic note, intended to be read after vs. 9.
  • 10:18*. So Vrs.; Heb. "So that they may find."
  • 10:23^. Heb. "and to control."
  • io:25f. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. repeats, "and have devoured him."
  • 1 1 :20. So Targum; Heb. "speak to the men."
  • 1 1 ^b. So Vrs.; Heb. "do them according to all that I command you."
  • 1 1 :i4*. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "on behalf of their trouble."
  • IT :i5A. So Vrs.; Heb. "Her doing," etc.
  • ii :i5<;, d. So LXX; Heb. "The many, and the holy flesh they make to pass from you./ When you do evil, then you rejoice."

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  • ii :\6h. So LXX; Heb. "Fair with fruit of appearance."
  • ii :i6^. So Vrs.; Heb. "And his branches are marred" (?).
  • 1 1 :i8A. So Vrs.; Heb. "Then thou didst show me their doings."
  • 1 1 :i 96*. So Vrs.; Heb. om. "saying."
  • 1 1 :i 9^. Heb. "with its bread."
  • 1 1 '.zob. Literally, "the kidneys and the heart."
  • 1 2 :zd. Literally, "far from their kidneys."
  • 12:4*. So LXX; Heb. "the herbs of all the field."
  • 1 2 \e. So Vrs.; Heb. "He sees not our latter end."
  • 12:54'. Heb. "if you are trustful."
  • i2:8r. Heb. "with her voice."
  • i2:9</. So Vrs.; Heb. "Come to devour."
  • 12:13^:. Heb. "your harvests." •
  • 13:11*:. So LXX, Heb. "a people and an honor."
  • I3:i8r. So Vrs.; Heb. "there has come down your head-parts."
  • 13:24^. Heb. "will scatter them."
  • 14:1. So Vrs.; Heb. "Which was the word of the LORD to Jeremiah concerning the droughts."
  • ; 4:4*3. So Vrs.; Heb. "Because of the ground that is dismayed."
  • i4'9rf. So Vrs.; Heb. "like a man astonished."
  • 14:141*. Heb. "a divination and an emptiness."
  • i 5:;</. So LXX, Heb. "Because they have turned not from their ways."
  • 15.1 \a. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "The LORD said, 'If I have not released you.1 " (?).
  • 15:120, b. Heb. "Can iron be broken, iron from the north, and bronze?"
  • 15:13^. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "Without price, and through all your sins, and through all your borders."
  • 15-14?. So MSS and Vrs. (cf. 17:4:); Heb. "I will make your enemies pass over."
  • 15:14^. So MSS and Vrs. (cf. 17 4/.) , Heb. om. "forever."
  • 15:15^. Heb. "take me not away."
  • 15:16*. So LXX; Heb. "Thy words were found, and I ate them."
  • 16:7*. So MSS and LXX; Heb. "They shall not break for them in mourning."
  • 16:76-. So LXX; Heb. "give them."
  • 16:13^. So Vrs.; Heb. "that I will show you no favor."
  • 1 6:1 $a. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "he had driven them."
  • 16:15^. So LXX (cf. 23:8^); Heb. "and I will bring them back on their own land."
  • 16:18*. So LXX; Heb. "And first," etc.
  • ijiie—zb. So MSS and Vrs., in part; Heb. "And to the horns of your altars, when their sons remember their altars and their sacred poles on a green tree, on the high hills."
  • 1 7:3 A. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. om. "and."
  • 17:36". So Syr.; Heb. "Your high places, with sin, through all your borders."
  • 1 7:4*. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "And you shall loosen, and with you, from your heritage."
  • 17 nob. Literally, "of the kidneys."
  • 1 7 : i of. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "And to give."
  • 17 136-. Heb. "shall be written:"
  • 1 7 :i 6a. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "I did not hasten from being a shepherd after thee.'*

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  • 17:19*, c. Heb. reads "the gate of the children of the people" for "the Benjamin Gate," and oip. the last clause.
  • 1 7 .-250. Hen. "kings and princes that sit," etc.
  • 17:26. Cf. 33:11 ,• Heb. here "and bringers of thank-offering."
  • 17:270. Heb. "going through the gates."
  • 18 :i40, *. Heb. "Does the snow of Lebanon vanish from the rock of the field."
  • i8:i4<r, d. Hob. "Does the strange cold flowing water run dry?"
  • 18:15^. So Vrs.; Heb. "And they make them to stumble in their ways."
  • 1 8:1 &e. So Syr.; Heb. "through a tongue."
  • 18:19*. So Vrs.; Heb. "to the voice to those who oppose me."
  • 18:23*. So Syr.; Heb. "be made to stumble."
  • 19:1*. So LXXi Heb. om. "take with you," and reads "of the elders of the people and the elders of the priests."
  • 19:3*. So LXX, Heb. "you kings of Judah."
  • 19.4*. So LXX, Heb. "nor the kings of Judah have known, and have filled."
  • 19:5*. So Vrs.; Heb. "the high places of Baal."
  • 1 9:120, b. So LXX; Heb. om. "For" and reads "and to turn."
  • 19:13*. So Syr.; Heb. "which are defiled."
  • 20 :9/. So Vrs.; Heb. only, "I cannot."
  • 2o:io</. Heb. om. "Say."
  • 20.120. So MSS and Vrs. \ Heb. "the righteous."
  • 20:12*. Literally, "the kidneys and the heart."
  • 20:170. So Vrs., Heb. "from the womb."
  • 21 6a. So LXX, Heb. "of a great pestilence shall they die."
  • 21 ja. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "and the people and those who are left."
  • 21 "jt. So Vrs. 5 Heb. "he shall smite them."
  • 22.4*. So Vrs.; Heb. "he, his servants, and his people."
    1. 6e. Heb. "Uninhabited cities."
  • 22.70. So Vrs.; Heb. "I will vsanctify," etc.
  • 22:100. So Vrs.; Heb. "a dead man."
  • 22:13^. So Vrs.; Heb. "his doing."
  • 22:14^. So Vrs.; Heb. "my windows."
  • 22:i4</. Heb. "And it is panelled."
  • 22:18^. Heb. "or <Ah sister!'"
  • 2z:zo//. Heb. "are broken."
  • 22:220. Heb. "your shepherds."
  • 22 -22.il. So LXX; Heb. "because of all your wickedness."
  • 22:23*. So Vrs.; Heb. "How gracious shall you be" (?).
  • 22:27. Heb. "they" for "you."
  • 22 :3or. Heb. "days" for ".sons."
  • 23:4*. Heb. "visited" for "troubled."
  • 23 :8*. So LXX; Heb. "to which I had driven them, and they shall dwell," etc.
  • 2Z:9S- So Vrs.; Heb. "before his holy words."
  • 23:10*. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "For because of swearing the land mourns."
  • 23:i4/. Heb. "And her citizens."
  • 23:170. So Vrs.; Heb. "Who despise me, The LORD has spoken."
  • 23:22*, r. So LXX; Heb. "Then would they cause my people to hear my words, /And would turn them," etc.

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  • 23:251-, 260. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "I have dreamed, I have dreamed. How long shall this be? Is it in the mind of the prophets," etc.
  • 23-286. So LXX; Heb. "a dream."
  • 23:33*. So Vrs.; Heb. "What is the burden?"
  • 24:8*. So Vrs.; Heb. "for thus says."
  • 25:90. So LXX; Heb. " 'all the families of the north/ is the oracle of the LORD, 'and Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, my servant.' "
  • 25:96. So LXX; Heb. "and everlastihg desolations."
  • 25:140. Heb. "mighty nations and great kings have served with them."
  • 25:150. So Vrs.; Heb. "For thus."
  • 25 :266. So Vrs. $ Heb. "all the kingdoms of the earth," etc.
  • 25:26*:. Heb. om. "And the LORD said to me." Sheshach: a cypher for Babylon.
  • 2^:34//. So LXX; Heb. "And you shall be dashed in pieces, and shall fall like a precious vessel."
  • 25-380. Heb. "He has left his covert like a lion."
  • 25:38*:. So MSS and Vrs., in part; Heb. "Because of the glow of the dove" (?).
  • 26:20. So Vrs.; Heb. "all the cities of Judah."
  • 26.86. Heb. inserts "and all the people" after "prophets."
  • 26-106. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "the new grate of the LORD."
  • 26:120. So LXX; Heb. "all the princes."
  • 26:i8/. Heb. "high places."
  • 26:196. So Vrs.i Heb. "he" for "they."
  • 26-22. So LXX; Heb. repeats "to Egypt" at close.
  • 27.10. So MSS (cf. vs. 3); Heb. "the reign of Jehoiakim."
  • 27:30. So Vrs.; Heb. "send them."
  • 27:36. So LXX, Heb. "through ambassadors those who have come."
  • 27:76. Heb. "mighty nations and great kings shall serve with him."
  • 27:8^. So Vrs.; Heb. "until I have finished it in his hand."
  • 27:90. So LXX; Heb. "your dreams" for "your dreamers."
  • 28:86. So MSS and Vulg.; Heb. "evil" for "famine."
  • 28:136. So LXX; Heb. "you shall replace them."
  • 28:166. So Vrs.; Heb. "the year you arc a dead man."
  • 29:10. So LXX; Heb. "the rest of the elders."
  • 29:6^. So LXX; Heb. "increase there."
  • 29:70. So LXX; Heb. "of the city."
  • 29:86. So Vrs.; Heb. "your dreams which you cause to be dreamed."
  • 29:120. So Targuiri; Heb. "and you shall go" for "and I will answer you."
  • 29:15. So Vrs.; Heb. "to Babylon."
  • 29:16-20. Are om. in LXX. The vss. interrupt the context between vss. 15 and 21.
  • 29:176. So Vrs.; Heb. "the horrible figs."
  • 29:196. So Syr.; Heb. "you did not listen."
  • 29:256. So LXX, Heb. "to all the people that are in Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying."
  • 29:260. So Vrs.; Heb. "to be overseers,."
  • 29:326. So LXX; Heb. "and he shall not see."
  • 30:50. So LXX; Heb. "For thus."
  • 30:56. Heb. "We hear."
  • 30-76. So Vrs.; Heb. "Whence is like it?"

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  • 30:86, t. So Vrs.; Heb. "I will break his yoke from your neck,/ And will burst your bonds."
  • 3o:8<2. So LXX; Heb. "And aliens shall no more serve with them."
  • 30 -.126. So Vrs.; Heb. "It is incurable for your wound."
  • 30 :i 30. Heb. "There is none to take up your cause for your wound."
  • 30:186. Heb. "I am restoring- the fortune of the tents of Jacob."
  • 31 :3*. So LXX; Heb. "to me."
  • 31 :4r. So LXX; Heb. "shall you deck yourself with your timbrels."
  • 31 :Sc. So LXX; Heb. "and shall profane it."
  • 3 1 :6a. Heb. "the watchmen."
  • 31 :66. So LXX; Heb. "the hill."
  • 3 1 :7f . Heb. "of the nations."
  • 31 :je. So Vrs.; Heb. "O LORD, save thy people."
  • 31:9*. So Vrs.; Heb. "With weeping shall they go."
  • 31:116. So LXX; Heb. "And shall redeem him."
  • 31 :i$b. So Vrs., Heb. "And the young men and the old together."
  • 31:19*. So Vrs.; Heb. "Since I returned."
  • 31 :24f. So Vrs.; Heb. "and they shall wander with flocks."
  • 31 1326. So Vrs.; Heb. "and I lorded it over them."
  • 31 :39*. So LXX; Heb. "And the measuring line shall yet go."
  • 3 1 :4o*. Heb. "And all the valley of dead bodies and ashes."
  • 32:26. Ht-b. "the guard-court which was the palace."
  • 32:12*. So LXX; Heb. "the deed of purchase" for "thorn."
  • 3 2. 12 b. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "my uncle."
  • 32:14*. So Vrs.; Heb. "and that which is sealed."
  • 32:306. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "for the children of Israel have been doing," etc.
  • 32 13 9*. So Vrs.; Heb. "one heart and one way."
  • 33:2*. So LXX; Heb. "the LORD who made it, the LORD who formed it."
  • 33 :4&, 5*. So LXX, in part; Heb. "to form bulwarks and a sword, coming to fight against the Chaldeans."
  • 33:6*. Heb. "will bring her."
  • 33:9*. So LXX, in part; Heb. "And she shall be to me for a name of joy."
  • 33 19*. Heb. "bring to them."
  • 33:106. So LXX; Heb. "abandoned by man, inhabitant, and beast."
  • 33:246. Heb. "and they spurn my people so as to be no longer a nation before them."
  • 34:26. So LXX; Heb. "Go and say to Zedekiah."
  • 34:5*. So Vrs.; Heb. "with the burnings of your fathers."
  • 34:86. So Vrs.; Heb. "to make them a proclamation."
  • 34:12. So Vrs.; Heb. inserts "from the LORD," after "Jeremiah."
  • 34:14*. So LXX; Heb. "seven years."
  • 34:186. Heb. "the calf which they cut in two."
  • 35:5*. So LXX 5 Heb. "bowls." '
  • 36:90. Heb. om. "the first day of the month."
  • 36:156. So LXX; Heb. "Sit down, arid read it."
  • 36:22. So LXX. Heb. "with the bra/ier burning before him."
  • 36:230. So LXX; Heb. "the king cut it up."
  • 36:28*. So Vrs.; Heb. "all the first words."

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17 :ib. So LXX; Heb. "to its land, Egypt." 37:106. Heb. connects "in their several tents" with "they would rise up." 3 7:11. So LXX; Heb. "will raise." 37:150. So Vrs.; Heb. "will beat him and put him in prispn." 3 7 :i6. So Vrs.; Heb. prefixes "For." 37:170'. So LXX; Heb. repeats "And he said" after "There is." 38:2. So Syr.; Heb. adds "and shall live." 38:3. So LXX; Heb. om. "For." 38:4. So LXX; Heb. "the princes said." 38:6. So Vrs.; Heb. "the cistern, Malchiah." 3 8 : T 06. Heb. "thirty men." 38:1 la. Heb. "went to the palace, to under the treasury." 38:22^. So Vulg.; Heb. "Your feet are .sunk." 38.236. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "this city you shall burn with fire." 39:30. So vs. 13; Heb. here, "Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-ncbo, Sarscchim the- chief eunuch, Nergal-sharezer the chief councillor." 39:4^. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "and he made for." 39:96. So 52:15; here, "together with the rest of the people that were left." 39:13, 14. Heb. "So Nebuzaradan . . . sent, and Nebushazban . . . and all the chief officials of the king of Babylon, and they sent and took," etc. 40:4/2. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "upon your hand." 40:5. So LXX; Heb. "He would still not go back; and go back." 40 :jc. Heb. "and of the poorest." 40:82. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "Johanan and Jonathan the sons of." 40:96. So LXX and II Kings 25:24; Heb. "afraid of serving the Chaldeans." 41 :ia. So LXX and II Kings 25:25; Heb. inserts "and the chiefs of the king1' after "royal family." 41 :30. So LXX; Heb. inserts "with Gedaliah" after "with him." 41 :6a. So LXX; Heb. "weeping as he went." 41 76. So Syr.; Heb. om. "and cast them." 4 1 190. So LXX; Heb. "by the hand of Gedaliah" for "a great cistern." 41 :i60. Heb. "whom he had carried captive from Ishmael." 41 :i6b. Heb. inserts "men of war" after "men." 42:10. So LXX (cf. 43:2*); Heb. "Jezaniah" for "Azariah." 42:100. So Vrs.; Heb. "If returning you stay." 42:126. So Vrs.; Heb. "and he shall restore you to your own land." 42:190. So Vrs.; Heb. "The LORD has spoken to you." 42:200. So LXX; Heb. "you will deceive yourselves." 42 216. So LXX; Heb. "and in regard to anything." 43:20. Heb. "and all the proud men, saying to Jeremiah." 43:106. So Vrs.; Heb. "and I will set ... I have buried." 43:120. So Vrs.; Heb. "I will kindle." 43:126. So LXX; Heb. "he shall wrap himself in ... wraps himself in." 44 :86. Heb. inserts "in order to cut yourselves off" after "settle." 44:90. So LXX; Heb. "the crimes of the kings of Judah, and the crimes of their wives." 44:140. So LXX; Heb. "and to return." 44:190. So Vrs.; Heb. om. "The women also said."

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44:z5c. Heb. "vows" for "word." 45 :4/. An explanatory gloss, om. in LXX. 46:14. Heb. "Which was the word of the LORD to Jeremiah." 46 :4<\ Heb. "Scour your spears." 46:8«/. So LXXi Heb. "I will destroy a city and its inhabitants." 46-9. So LXX; Heb. "Let the warriors march." 46:94. Heb. "that handle, that bend." 46:124. So LXXi Heb. "your shame." 46.147, b. So LXX; Heb. "Tell it in Egypt, and publish it in Migdol,/ And publish it in Memphis and Daphne." " 46:154. So LXXi Heb. "Why has your bull-god been prostrated, not held his ground?" 46:164,6. So LXX, in part; Heb. "He makes many a stumbler,/ They also fall one against another, and say." 46:174. So Vrs.; Heb. "They call there Pharaoh," etc. 46.204. So MSS and Vrs. \ Heb. "A heifer fair of fairness." 46:20. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "has come, has come." 46-224, b. So LXX, in parti Heb. "Her voice goes like a serpent,/ As they go in force." 46:2^-. So LXXi Heb. inserts "and Kgypt, and her gods, and her kings, and Pharaoh" after "Pharaoh." 47:14. Heb. "Which was the word of the LORD to Jeremiah," etc. 47 5</. So LXXi Heb. "remnant of their valley." 47:74. So Vrs.; Heb. "can you be at peace." 48 :4. So LXX, Heb. "Her little ones send out the cry." 48 $d. So Vrs., in part, and Isa. 1 5 .5 i Heb. here, "The distresses of the cry of ruin they hear." 48 6b. So Vrs.i Hob. "like Aroer in the desert." 48:8^. So Vrs.; Heb. "Which the LORD has said." 48:i2f. So Vrs.i Heb. "their jars." 48-154. Cf. vs. i8f, Heb. here, "Moab is spoiled, and one has gone up to her cities." 48:184. Cf. Vrs.; Heb. "sit in thirst." 48:204. Cf. vs. 14; Heb. here, "for she is discomfited." 48 26. So LXXi Heb. "has clapped on his vomit." 48.30. Heb. "And it is baseless, his boastings have done what is baseless." 48:31:. So MSS; Heb. "He moans." 48 13 2f. Heb. adds "as far as the sea." 48.33. So LXX; Heb. "From the garden-land and from the land of Moab." 48 .334. So Vrs.; Heb. "No shout treads them." 48 133^ /. Heb. "The shout is no shout." 48 344. So Isa. 15:4; Heb. here, "From the cry of Heshbon as far as Elealeh." 48-34^ So LXX; Heb. "Horonaim Eglath-shelishiyyah." 48:35. So LXX; Heb. "that offers up the high place." 48:36:. Cf. Isa. 15:7; Heb. here, "the gain of (what) they had gotten have perished." 48:3 7. So LXX; Heb. "they (fern.) are gashed." So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "and on loins."

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48 {390. Heb. "How is she discomfited, wail you, How Moab turns," etc. 4 8 :44£, d. So Vrs. i Heb. "For I will bring upon her, upon Moab, their year," etc. 48:45**. So Vrs.; Heb. "from between Sihon." 49=^, 3/- So Vrs.; Heb. "their king" for "Milcom." 49:3. Heb. "For Ai has been spoiled." 49 \ie. Heb. "run to and fro among the sheepf olds." 49:40,6. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "of valleys, (that) your valley flows,/ O back-sliding daughter." 49 :4C. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. om. "and saying." 49:7'^. So LXX; Heb. "of the sons." 49:80. Heb. "Flee, be turned, make deep to dwell." 49:84. So Vrs.; Heb. "The time (that) I reckon with him." 49: loc. So Vrs.; Heb. "And he shall conceal himself; he cannot." 49:104. So LXX; Heb. "His race is spoiled, and his brothers and neighbors." 49:102. So LXX, in part; Heb. "And he is not." 49:20^. So LXX; Heb. "shall drag them away." 49:216. So MSS and Targum; Heb. "her crying." 49:234. So LXX and MSS, in part; Heb. "there is turmoil in the sea." 49:250. Heb. "not forlorn." 49:256. So Vrs.; Heb. "My joyous town." 49:304. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "against them." 50:5^. So LXX; Heb. "Come!" 50:14^. So MSS and LXX; Heb. unintelligible. 50:210, b. Merathaim and Pekod: two districts in Babylonia, the names suggesting "Double rebellion" and "Punishment." 50:290, Heb. "many" for "archers." 50:3 ic. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "the time (that) I have reckoned with you." 50:370. So Vrs.; Heb. "his." 50:380. So Vrs.; Heb. "A drought." 50:386. So Vrs.; Heb. "upon terrors." 50:45:. See note on 49:20^ 50:454. So Vrs. (cf. 49:20*0; Heb. "the fold." 50:466. So Syr.; Heb. "the cry." Sine. Leb-kamai, "The heart of those who rise against me," a cypher for Chaldea. 5 1 :20. So Vrs.; Heb. "strangers" for "winnowers." 51 :2C. So LXX; Heb. "For they are against her on every side." 51 :30, 6. So LXX 5 Heb. prefixes "To." 5 i :$a-d. The couplets have been transposed. 5i:xx6. So Vrs.; Heb. "kings." 5 1 :i 3C. Heb. "the cubit of your ill-gotten gains." 51:19^. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "And the tribe." 5 1 :200. Heb. "weapons." 51:286. So Vrs.; Heb. "the kings of the Medes, her governors, and all her deputies." 51:326. Heb. "the pools." 51 :390. So Syr.; Heb. "When they are heated, I will prepare them a feast." 51 :396. So Vrs.; Heb. "till they exult." 51 :4i0. Sheshach, a cypher for Babylon.

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  • d. So Vrs.; Heb. "A land — no man dwells in them, no mortal panes through them."
  • 51 1460. So Vrs.; Heb. "And lest you be down-hearted and fearful."
  • 5 1 .-49*. Heb. "must fall, O slain of Israel."
  • 51 152^. So Vrs.; Heb. "shall groan."
  • 5 1 1536. So Syr., in part; Heb. "fortify the height of her stronghold."
  • 5i:SSC. So LXX, Heb. "Their waves roar."
  • 51 156*. So LXX; Heb. "upon her, upon Babylon."
  • 51 158*. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "walls" (with sing. adj. and verb).
  • 51:58*. So Vrs.; Heb. "And the nations for the fire, and they shall weary themselves."
  • 51:640. So LXX; Heb. adds "and they shall weary themselves" (from 580).
  • $2:3*. Heb. "for upon the anger of the LORD it was," etc.
  • 52:7/1. Cf. 39:40; here "and the king" is omitted.
  • 52:80. So 39 '54; here "pursued the king."
  • 52:126. So LXX; Heb. "(who) stood in attendance."
  • 52:140. So LXX; Heb. "the whole Chaldean armv."
  • 52:150. So LXX; Heb. inserts "of the poorest of the people, and" (from 160) after "captive."
  • 52:17/1. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "bronze pillars that belonged to the house of the LORD."
  • 52:20*?. So LXX; Heb. "bulls that were under the stands."
  • 52:226. So II Kings 25-176, in part; here "network and" is omitted.
  • 52:286. Heb. "seventh."

NOTES ON THE BOOK OF LAMENTATIONS
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  • T . An alphabetic acrostic of twenty-two stanzas, one for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The stan/as begin successively with the letters of the alphabet and contain three lines each, with the exception of the seventh, which has four lines.
  • i :i2fl. So Vrs.; Heb. "not unto you, all."
  • i :i3*, 6. So LXX; Heb. "from above he has hurled fire into my bones, and it has overcome them."
  • 1:14/1. So Kethibh and Vrs.$ Qeri, "the yoke of my transgressions has been watched."
  • 1 :i66. So Heb. MSS and Vrs.; Heb. accidentally repeats "my eyes."
    1. An alphabetic acrostic of twenty-two stanzas, one for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The stanzas begin successively with the letters of the alphabet and con-tain three lines each, with the exception of the nineteenth, which has four lines.
  • ^\a. So LXX; Heb. "is disgracing."
  • 2:2^. So Vrs.; Heb. "he has degraded the kingdom."
  • 2 =56. So by change of one letter; Heb. "all her palaces."
  • 2:8c. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "he made rampart and wall mourn."
  • 2:116. Literally, "my liver is poured out."
  • 2:15^. So LXX; Heb. inserts "beauty" after "crowning."
  • 2 .180, 6. So by slight changes; Heb. "their heart cried unto the Lord, the wall of the daughter of Zion."

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  • 2:18^. So Heb. and LXX MSS; Heb. "the daughter of your eye."
    1. An alphabetic acrostic of twenty-two stanzas, one for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The stanzas contain three lines each, all three beginning with the same letter, and the stanzas arc arranged in the order of the alphabet.
  • 3 :i30. Literally, "he has driven into my kidneys."
  • 3 1140. So Heb. MSS and Syr.; Heb. "of all my people."
  • 3:170. So LXX; Heb. "thou hast robbed me."
  • 3:190. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "mark my affliction."
  • 3:23^. So by change of one letter; Heb. "thy faithfulness."
  • 3:250. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "to those who crave him."
  • 3:56^. So LXX; Heb. "to my respite."
  • 3:66*. So Syr. and LXX MSS in part; Heb. "the heavens of the LORD."
    1. An alphabetic acrostic of twenty-two stanzas, one for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The stanzas begin successively with the letters of the alphabet and contain two lines each.
  • 4.9^. So by change of one letter; Heb. "for they pine away."
  • 4:15^. So context requires; Heb. inserts "they said" after "wanderers."
  • 4:1 60. So Kethibh, Heb. MSS, and LXX; Qere, "he has divided them."
  • 4:i6r, d. So by deletion of one letter; Heb. "they do not honor . . . they do not respect."
  • 4:i6</. So LXX, cf. vs. 130; Heb. "the elders."
  • 5 -50. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "upon our necks we are persecuted."

NOTES ON THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL
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  • i :±b. Heb. adds "out of the midst of the fire."
  • i :6. So Vrs.; Heb. adds "to them."
  • i 70. So Vrs.; Heb. "Their legs were a straight leg."
  • i :8£, 90. Heb. "And as for the faces and wings of the four of them, their wings were linked one to another; they turned not," etc.
  • i nob. Heb. "the four of them had the face of an ox on the left, and the four of them had the face of an eagle."
  • i :n0. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "And their faces and their wings were stretched upward."
  • i :i30. So Vrs.; Heb. "And the semblance of the creatures was," etc.
  • 1 114. Heb. "And the creatures were running to and fro like the appearance of «i flash of lightning" (?). The verse is omitted in LXX.
  • 1:15. So Vrs.; Heb. "beside the creatures, at their four faces."
  • 1.160,6. So LXX; Heb. "The color of the wheels and their construction . . . their appearance and their construction."
  • i :i80. So LXX, in part; Heb. "And their felloes, and they had height and fear; and the felloes of the four of them," etc.
  • 1:200. So MSS and Vrs.; Hefo. inserts "there the spirit wished to go, and the wheels rose along with them."
  • i 'zob; 21 c. Heb. "the creature."
  • 1 1220. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "the creature . . . like terrible ice."
  • i :230. Cf. Vrs. 5 Heb. "their wings were straight one to another."
  • 1 123*. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. repeats "while the other pair covered."

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  • 1:25. Heb. "And there was a voice above the firmament that was over their heads; when they stood still, they let down their wings." The whole vs. is omitted in a number of MSS.
  • 1:270. So LXX; Heb. adds "something of the appearance of fire, with a house round about it."
  • 2:3*. So LXX, in part; Heb. "the children of Israel, the rebellious nations."
  • 2 :6a. So Vrs. $ Heb. "nor fear their words."
  • 2:66. So Vrs.; Heb. "to scorpions."
  • 2.7*. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "they are rebellion."
  • 3.2. So LXX; Heb. "this scroll."
  • 3:3*. So LXX; Heb. om. "the scroll."
  • 3 .66. So Vrs.; Heb. "If I had not sent you."
  • 3 : 1 2a. Heb. "blessed be the glory of the LORD from its place."
  • 3 :i36. Heb. "and the sound of a great rustling."
  • 3-156. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. inserts "and stayed where they stayed," and reads "stupefying."
  • 3:21*7. So Vrs.; Heb. "warn him, the righteous man, that the righteous man sin not."
  • 3:22*. So LXX5 Heb. inserts "there."
  • 3 :z$a. Heb. "cords are placed upon you, and they shall bind you."
  • 4.40. Heb. "place upon it."
  • 5.16. Heb. "divide them."
  • 5 .-20. So Vrs.; Heb. "burn with light."
  • 5 :zb. Heb. "you shall take, smite."
  • 5:2f. Heb. adds "and after them will I draw the sword" (from i2r).
  • 5 .-46. So LXX; Heb. "from it shall go out a fire to the whole household," etc.
  • 5 \6b. Heb. "for they."
  • 5 170. So Vrs.; Heb. "you have raged more than," etc.
  • 5:11*. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "I will withdraw" (?).
  • 5:130, 6. So LXX; Heb. "upon them."
  • 5:150. So Vrs.; Heb. "She shall be."
  • 5:156. So LXX; Heb. "in anger and fury, and with furious chastisements."
  • 5 :i6a. Heb. "when I send the deadly arrows of famine against them."
  • 6 :6a. So Vrs.; Heb. "pay the penalty" for "made desolate."
  • 6:80. So LXX; Heb. "and I leave, when but a few," etc.
  • 6:90. So Vrs.; Heb. "I have been broken as to their heart." Heb. om. "have blinded."
  • 6 -i i b. Heb. "who shall fall."
  • 6:126. Heb. "he who remains and is besieged."
  • 6:130. So Syr.; Heb. "you shall know."
  • 6:140. Heb. "more than the desert of Diblah."
  • 7:20. So Vrs.; Heb. om. "say."
  • 7.26. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "An end has come, the end."
  • 7 46. So 96; Heb. here, "that I am the LORD."
  • 7:56. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "One woe, a woe."
  • 7:76. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "the day, tumult, is near, and not joyful .shouting of mountains."
  • 7:106. Heb. "The rod has blossomed."

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7 136. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "while their life is still in life, for the vision is upon all her teeming multitude; he shall not return, nor shall any man for his iniquity layholdonhislife"(?). 7:200. So Vrs.; Heb, "Its beauteous ornament he made a pride." 7 12 1 , 230. Heb. "and they shall profane it. ... Make the chain." 7:24. So MSS and LXX; Heb. "the strong ones" for "the stronghold." 7:260. Heb. om. "but in vain." 7:27. So Vrs.; Heb. "from their way." 8:20. So LXX; Heb. "the appearance of fire, from the appearance of his loins downward fire." 8 :i 2. Heb. "each in his picture-chambers." 8:14. So LXX; Heb. "the women." 8 :ijc. So correction of scribes; Heb. "their nostrils." 9:30. So LXX; Heb. "the cherub." 9:40. So LXX-, Heb. "And the LORD said to him." 9:7. So Vrs.; Heb. "Go out, and they shall go out and slay in the city.* 9:9. Cf. Vrs.; Heb. "perversion" (?) for "oppression." 10:2. So LXX; Heb. "the cherub." 10:7. So LXX; Heb. "And the cherub reached out his hand from between the cherubs to the fire that was between the cherubs, and took some, and put it into the hands of the man clothed in linen, and he took it, and went out." 10:12. Heb. adds "their wheels." 10:140. Heb. "And each had four faces the first face that of a cherub." 10:150. So LXX; Heb. prefixes, "And the cherubs rose." 10:190. So Vrs.; Heb. reads "as they went on their way" after "before my eyes." 10:220. So LXX; Heb. adds "their appearance and themselves." 1 1 :20. So Vrs.; Heb. "he said to me." ii 17. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "one shall take you." ii :n0. So Vrs.; Heb. "you shall be flesh." 11:150. So Vrs.; Heb. "your brothers, your brothers, your kinsmen." 11:15. Heb. "Get you far from the LORD." n :i70. Heb. prefixes "Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD.' " 11:170, b. So LXX; Heb. "gather you . . . assemble you . . . give you." 11:190. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "one heart . . . within you." ii :2i0. Cf. Vrs.; Heb. "as for the heart whose heart is set." 1 1 1240. Heb. "in a vision by the spirit of God." 12:30. So LXX; Heb. inserts "and go into exile" after "baggage for exile.' 1 2 14. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "like those carrying into exile." 12:5. So Vrs.; Heb. "and carry out by it." 12:7. So Vrs.; Heb. "and brought out in the dark." 12:10. Heb. "the midst of them." 12:110. Heb. "I am your omen." 12:120. So Vrs.; Heb. reads "in the dark" before "and shall go out." 12:12. So Vrs.; Heb. "they shall dig ... to carry out by it." 12:121. So LXX; Heb. "because he shall not see the ground as to his eyes." 12:19^. Heb. "in order that its land may be stripped bare." 12:23. Heb. "and the word of every vision." 12:250. So Syr.; Heb. "will speak what I will speak — a word.' 13 .-2. So LXX; Heb. "the prophets and say." 13:5. SoLXXi Heb. "You." 13:11. So Vrs.; Heb. inserts "that it may fall" after "whitewash." 13:1 ib. So Vrs.; Heb. "and you, O hail-stones, shall fall." Heb. "shall break." • 13:13. So Vrs.; Heb. "and I will say to you, 'There is no wall, and there are none who daub it.' " 1 3 :i 8. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "on all the wrists of my hands." 13:20, b. So Vrs.; Heb. adds "for birds" after "for lives" and "you hunt." 1 3 :zob. Heb. "your arms." 13:22. So Vrs.; Heb. "have cowed." 13:23. Heb. "nor utter divinations." 14:4. So Vrs., Heb. om. "that he may consult me through him." i4:4<r. So Vrs.; Heb. "through it by the multitude of his idols." 1 4 :8. So Vrs.; Heb. "I will make him desolate for a sign." 14:15. Heb. "Would that I might send." 14-21. Heb. "For." LXX om. the word, i 5 7. So LXX; Heb. "you shall know." 16:6. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. repeals, "and I said to you, as you lay weltering in your blood, 'Live.' " i 6:7. So Vrs.; Heb. "I made you myriads like a plant of the field." i 6:7. So Syr.; Heb. "reached ornament of ornaments." 16:7:. So Vrs.; Heb. "Breasts." 16:153. So Vrs.; Heb. adds "to him let it be!" i6:i6b. Hob. adds "they are not coming, and it shall not be." 16:19. Heb. "and you will set it before them." So Syr.; Heb. adds "and it was" after "sweet savor." 16:30. So LXX, in part; Heb. "How languid was your heart" (?)• 1 6:31 b. So Vrs.; Heb. "in scorning hire." 16:36. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "and like the bloodshed." . i 6 39. Heb. "to them" for "to your lovers." 16:43. So Vrs.; Heb. "but were roused for me." 16:43. So MSS and Vrs., Heb. "on a head." 16:43:. So LXX; Heb. "and you have not added." 16:45. So Vrs.; Heb. "of your sister." 16:47. So Vrs.; Heb. "that were only (?) too slight." 16:49. So Vrs.; Heb. "she supported not." 16:50. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "as I have seen." 16:53. So Vrs.; Heb. "and the fortune of your fortunes along with them." 16:54. So LXX; Heb. "in bringing comfort to them." 16:57. Heb. "your wickedness." So LXX; Heb. "as the time of the scorn." So MSS and Syr.; Heb. "the daughters of Syria." 16:57. Heb. "the daughters of the Philistines, who hold you in contempt round about." 1 6:6 1. So Syr.; Heb. "when you take." 17:5:. Heb. "Take it." 17:6. Heb. "It sprouted, and became," etc. 17:7*. So Vrs.i Heb. "one great eagle."

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1 7 :•?£. Cf . Vrs.; Heb. "became hungry as to its roots." 17:9. So LXX; Heb. adds "that it may wither." 1 7:2 2 b. So Vrs.; Heb. adds "the lofty one, and I will give." 18.60, iia, 150. Cf. 33:250; Heb. here, "eat not upon the mountains." 18:70. Heb. "but restore his pledge as to indebtedness" (?). 18:90. So LXX; Heb. "to do truth." 18:10. Heb. "who does a brother from one of these things." 18:13. So LXX; Heb. "and live, he shall not live." 18:14. So Vrs.; Heb. "and sees" for "and is afraid." 18:170. So LXX; Heb. "from the poor" for "from crime." 1 8:240. So Vrs.; Heb. inserts "he shall do and live" after "practices." 18:260. So Vrs.; Heb. "and die on their account" for "he shall die." 18:280. Heb. "because he sees." 1 8 :3 10. So LXX; Heb. "with which you have transgressed." 1 9 =40. Heb. "heard against him." 1 9 =50. Heb. "that she had to wait." 19:5:. So LXX; Heb. "one." 19:70. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "He knew his widows." 19:86. Heb. "From the provinces round about." 19 90— el. Heb. "They placed him in a cage with hooks, and led him away to the king of Babylon, that they might bring him into strongholds." 19:100. So MSS; Heb. "in your blood." 19:110,6. So Vrs.; Heb. "branches . . . scepters." ig:i2C—f. Heb. "parched her fruit, they were torn off and withered; her strong branch — the fire devoured it." 19:13*:. Heb. "the branch." 19:13**. So LXX; Heb. adds "her fruit." 20.60. So Vrs.; Heb. "had explored for them." 20:310. So LXX; Heb. "by the offering of your gifts." 20:376. Heb. "into the .bond of the covenant." 20:396. So LXX; Heb. "Go, worship," etc. 20:406. Heb. "accept them." 20:410. Heb. "With a sweet savor." 21 :2. Heb., "the sanctuaries." zi =90. So Syr.; Heb. adds "say." 21 :io6. Heb. "polished that there may be lightning for her." 2i:io<;. A corrupt variant to 136. 21 :i 10. Heb. "given for polishing." 21 :i2f. So Syr.; Heb. "It upon all," etc. 21:136. Heb. "And what if there even be a rod despising? It shall not be." 21 :i4<r. So LXX; Heb. "And let the sword be doubled a third time." 21 :i50. So LXX; Heb. "That surrounds them" (attached to vs. 14). 21 :i5f. So LXX; Heb. "I have given the point of the sword — a brother" (?). 21 :i60. So MSS in part; Heb. "Go one way to the right, set to the left." 21 1196, 200. So LXX, in part; Heb. "at the fork of the road to the city make, set a road." 21 :2o6. So LXX; Heb. "and to Judah with Jerusalem the fortified." 21 :220. Heb. inserts "for the planting of battering-rams" after "Jerusalem."

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21 :280. Heb. "polished, to bring an end, for the sake of lightning.** 21 izyb. Heb. "to wield you." 22:36. Heb. "makes idols upon her." 22:46. So Vrs.; Heb. "and have come up to your years." 22:96. Heb. "eat upon the mountains." 22:12. So Vrs.; Heb. "you" and "your" for "they" and "their." 22:216. Heb. "in the midst of it." 22:24. So LXX; Heb. "a land uncleansed and unrained upon." 22:250. So LXX; Heb. "There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst of her, like a roaring lion," etc. 22:296. Heb. "and oppress . . . with injustice." 23:4/1. Oholah and Oholibah: that is, "A (or Her) tent" and "A (or My) tent is in her." 23:106. Heb. "and judgments they executed upon her." 23:124. Heb. "clothed in completeness" (?). 23:176. Heb. "till she was defiled with them." 23:200. Heb. "on their concubines." 23:21. Heb. "repeating the lewdncss of your youth, when from Egypt they made your breasts, for the sake of your girlish bosom." 23 '330. Heb. "with drunkenness and sorrow." 23 :346. Heb. "You shall crunch the sherds of it." 23 =380. So LXX; Heb. inserts "on that day" after "my sanctuary." 23 1420. Heb. "And a sound of revelry, one at ease in her, and to men from a multi- tude of mankind, brought together, drunkards from the desert." 23:43. Heb. "And I said of her that was worn out by adulteries, 'Now will they play the harlot with her, even with her.' " 23 :440. Heb. "went in to her." 23:470. Heb. "and create them with their swords." 24:20, 6, So Vrs.; Heb. "of the day, this very da." 24 140. So Vrs.; Heb. "its pieces." 24:50. So Vrs.; Heb. "Take the choicest of the flock." 24:56. Heb. "Pile the bones under it." 24:66. Heb. "Bring it out piece by piece!" 24:86. Heb. "I have put." 24:110. So LXX; Heb. "its embers." 24:12. So LXX, in part; Heb. "Vexation, filth, and its thick filth will not leave it, its filth by fire." 24:130. Heb. "With your impurity, lewdness." 24:140. Heb. "have spoken, it comes." 24:14^:. So Vrs.; Heb. "will they punish you." 24:170. Heb. transposes "mourning" and "dead." 24:17:, 226. So Vrs.; Heb. "the bread of men." 24:246,*:. Heb. "shall you do; and when the time comes, you shall know," etc. 24:270. So Targum; Heb. "on the same day your mouth shall be opened with the fugitive, and you shall speak." 25 =50. Heb. "the sons of Ammon." 25 :80. So LXX; Heb. "Moab and Seir." 25 190. So Vrs. 5 Heb. "from the cities, from its cities."

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25 :io. So Vrs.; Heb. "to the sons of the east along with Ammon, and I will give it as a possession." 25 :io. Heb. "fco that the children of Ammon may be" (sing.), etc. 25:154. Heb. om. "against the household of Judah." 26:10. Heb. om. "the eleventh month." 26:7. So LXX; Heb. "a host, and many people." 26:106. So Vrs.; Heb. "the noise of horseman (? ), wheel, and chariot." 26:104. So LXX; Heb. "like the entrances of a city." 26:1 ic. So Vrs.; Heb. "shall come down." 26:14. So Vrs.; Heb. "She shall be." 26:160. Heb. "shall clothe themselves in trembling." 26:17. So Vrs.; Heb. "who were peopled from the seas." 26:i;/. So LXX; Heb. "their terror." 26:20. So MSS; Heb. "like the primeval wastes." 26:20^. So LXX; Heb. "and I will set glory in the land of the living." 27:6. So Targum; Heb. "of ivory the daughter of larch." 27:15. So LXXi Heb. "of Dedan." 27:16. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "Syria." 27:17. Heb. "millet" (?) for "wax." 27:18, 19. So LXX; Heb. unintelligible. 27:23. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "Eden, the traders of Sheba, Assyria, like your pupil in trade" (?). 27:270. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "and with all the crowd." 27:32. Heb. "And in their wailing" (?). 27:32;. So Vrs.; Heb. "Who was like Tyre like silence" (?)• 27:34. So Vrs.; Heb. "The time that you are wrecked from the seas." 28:4. So Vrs.; Heb. "have made." 28:12. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "You were sealing perfection." 28:13?, 14. So Vrs., in part; Heb. unintelligible. 28:16. So Vrs.; Heb. "they filled your mind." 28:16. So LXX; Heb. "and I destroyed you, O guardian cherub." 28:18. Heb. "your sanctuaries." 28:22, 23. So Vrs.; Heb. "they" and "her" for "you," and "her" for "your." 29:3,?. So Syr.; Heb. "made me." 29:54. So MSS and Targum; Heb. "and unfathered." 29:6;. So Vrs.; Heb. "they have been." 29:7*. So Vrs.; Heb. "their shoulder." 29:7. So Syr.; Heb. "to stand." 29:9. So Vrs.; Heb. "he has said." 29:10. So Syr.-, Heb. "your streams." 29:10. So Vrs.; Heb. "wastes, waste, a desolation." 29:13. So LXX; Hob. prefixes "For." 29:20. So Vrs.; Heb. "against her." 30:3^. So Syr.; Heb. "a time for the nations shall it be." 30:5. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "Lud, and all the foreign population, and Cub, and the children of the land of the covenant with them." 30:7. So LXX; Heb. "They" for "She." 30:7*. Heb. "his" for "her."

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THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL

30:9^:. Heb. "like" for "on." 30:13. So LXX; Heb. "I will destroy idols, and stop things of nought from Memphis." 30:13^. So Syr.; Heb. "from the land." 30:16:. So LXX, in part; Heb. "and Memphis — adversaries of the daytime." 30:17. Heb. "Aven" (trouble) for "On." 30:17. Heb. "they" for "their maidens." 30:18. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "shall restrain." 30:18. So Vrs.; Heb. "yokes" for "scepter." 30:21. So Vrs.; Heb. adds "to bind up" after "put on." 31 :3. Heb. "Lo! Assyria — a cedar in Lebanon." 3 1 :3f, 10, 14. So LXX; Heb. "thick boughs" for "clouds." 31 =4. So LXX; Heb. "Going her streams." 31 :$c. Heb. "in sending it." 31 :6c. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "shall live." 31:1 oa. So Vrs.; Heb. "you towered." 31:11. Heb. adds "I drive it out." 31 :i2<r. Heb. "and will cast it away" for "in terror." 31 :isa. So LXX; Heb. "I will cause the deep to mourn, I will cover if over." 31:17. So LXX, in part; Heb. "while its arm — they lived undrr its shadow among the nations." 32:1. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "twelfth" for "eleventh." 32:22. Heb. "in your rivers." 32'3</. So Vrs.; "they shall draw you up." 32-4^. So Vrs.; Heb. "the beasts of all the earth." 32:5. So Targum; Heb. "with your foulness" (?). 32:9. Heb. "bring" for "announce." 32 :i5. So Vrs.; Heb. "the land is a waste." 32:17. So LXX; Heb. om. the month. 32:18. Heb. "and send him down, her and the daughters," etc. 32:19. Heb. "From whom are you pleasant ?" 32:20, . Heb. "In the midst of those who are slain by the sword shall they fall, a sword is given, draw her and all her teeming multitude." 32:21, c. So LXX, in part; Heb. "lie, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword." 32:22. So Syr., Heb. "round about their graves." 32:27. So Vrs.; Heb. "warriors of the uncircumcised." 32:27. Heb. "their iniquities" for "their shields." 32:27. So Syr.; Heb. "the warriors" for "their might." 32:28. So Vrs.; Heb. "be broken and lie." 32:29. So MSS and Vrs.-, Heb. "and with those," etc. 32:32. So Targum; Heb. "1 struck." 33 :2. So Vrs.; Heb. "one of their ends." 33:11. Heb. prefixes "Say to them." 33:13. So Vrs.; Heb. "He shall surely live." 33:18. So Vrs.; Heb. "for them." 33:21. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "the twelfth." 33:27. So Vrs.; Heb. "to eat it" for "as food." 33 :3o*. So Vrs.; Heb. "and one says to another."

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  • 33 13 1 a, Heb. "a people."
  • 33:320. Heb. "like a love-song."
  • 33:110. Heb. prefixes "Say to them."
  • 34:3*. So Vrs.; Heb. "fat" for "milk."
  • 34:4.6. So LXX; Heb. "but have ruled them with strength and rigor."
  • 34 :$a. So Vrs.; Heb. "they were scattered."
  • 34:56. So Syr.; Heb. adds "and they were scattered."
  • 34:86. So Vrs.i Heb. "my shepherds" for "the shepherds."
  • 34:106. So Vrs.; Heb. "the flock" for "my flock."
  • 34:120. So Syr.; Heb. "on a day when he is in the midst of his flock that are separated."
  • 34:1 36. Heb. "in all the habitations of the land."
  • 34:166. So Vrs.; Heb. "I will destroy the fat," etc.
  • 34 -i 76. Heb. "between sheep and sheep, rams and he-goats."
  • 34:260. Heb. "I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing."
  • 34:290. So Vrs.; Heb. "a plantation for a name."
  • 34:300. So Vrs.; Heb. "that I the LORD their God am with them."
  • 34:310. So LXX; Heb. "you my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men."
  • 34:316. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "I am your God."
  • 35:66. So LXX; Heb. adds "blood you hate, and blood shall pursue you."
  • 3 5 -90. So Vrs.; Heb. "your cities shall not return."
  • 35-106. So Vrs.; Heb. "we" for "I."
  • 35 :i T0. So Vrs.; Heb. om. "you."
  • 35:116. So LXX; Heb. "among them."
  • 35 .-126. Heb. "are desolate" for "are our possession."
  • 35:14, 15. So LXX; Heb. "As all the earth rejoiced, I will make for you a desola tion; as you rejoiced," etc.
  • 35:156. So Vrs.; Heb. "and the whole of Edom, all of it."
  • 36:36. So LXX; Heb. "you have been made desolate."
  • 36-50. Heb. prefixes "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD.M
  • 36:56. Heb. "to drive it out as a prey."
  • 36:120. So Vrs.; Heb. "to walk upon you."
  • 36:156. Heb. "make your peoples to stumble."
  • 36-196. So Vrs.; Heb. "and they were dispersed."
  • 37:80. So Vrs.; Heb. "and covered them over with skin."
  • 37:166. So Vrs.; Heb. "a stick." Heb. inserts "the stick of Ephraim" after "Joseph."
  • 37 .1 70. So Syr.; Heb. inserts "into a single stick" after "together."
  • 37:196. So LXX; Heb. "will make them upon it the stick of Judah."
  • 37:236. So Vrs.; Heb. "dwellings" for "apostasies."
  • 37:250. So Vrs.; Heb. "your fathers."
  • 37.266. So Targum; Heb. "give" for "bless."
  • 37:270. So Vrs.; Heb. "over them."
  • 38:5. So Vrs.; Heb. "Put with them, all of them shield and helmet."
  • 38:60. So LXX; Heb. om. "from."
  • 38 :76. So LXX; Heb. "for them."
  • 38.80. Heb. "restored from the sword."
  • 38:86. Heb. "and it brought home from nations."

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  • 38 190. So Vrs.; Heb. "you shall advance, you shall come like a storm, you shall be like a cloud," etc.
  • 38 :i 10. So LXX; Heb. "I will come the quiet people."
  • 38:1317. Heb. "young lions" for "magnates."
  • 38:14*. So LXX; "know" for "bestir yourself."
  • 38 -i7a. So Vrs.; Heb. "Are you," etc.? Heb. adds "years" after "days."
  • 38:210. So LXX; Heb. "I will summon against him all my mountains a sword."
  • 39:11*. So Vrs.; Heb. "a burial-place there in Israel." Heb. "the valley of the passers-by."
  • 39:1 1 £. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "and it shall stop up the passers-by."
  • 39:130. So Vrs.; Heb. om. "them."
  • 39.140. So LXX; Heb. "burying the passers-by who remain unburied."
  • 39 :T 6a. Heb. "And also the name of a city shall be Mob."
  • 39:200. So LXX; Heb. "horses and chariots."
  • 39:290. So Vrs.; Heb. "which" for "for."
  • 40:10. So LXX; Heb. "the beginning of the year."
  • 40 : i b. So Vrs.; Heb. "brought me thither in visions."
  • 40:2*. So LXX; Heb. "a city on the south."
  • 40:60. Heb. "he came."
  • 40 -6b. So LXX; Heb. adds "and one threshold one rod broad."
  • 40:8. A repetition of words in vss. 7 and 9, omitted in MSS and Vrs.
  • 40:120. Heb. adds "a platform on this side" after "square."
  • 40:14. Heb. "And he made jambs of sixty cubits, even up to the jamb of the court, the gate round about."
  • 40.1 5. So LXX, in part, Heb. "And to the front of the gate of the entrance," etc.
  • 40.160. Heb. inserts "and their jambs" after "guard-rooms."
  • 40:16^. So LXX; Heb. "to the jambs and windows" for "the vestibule also had windows."
  • 40:17^. So LXX, in part; Heb. "there were chambers and a pavement made for the court round about — thirty chambers to the pavement."
  • 40 190. Heb. "lower gate" for "outer gate."
  • 40.200. So LXX; Heb. "cast and north (at end of vs. 19) and the north gate," etc.
  • 4<>:22<-, 26*. So LXX; Heb. "its vestibule was before them."
  • 40:230. So LXX; Heb. "and" for "corresponding to the gate."
  • 40 270. Heb. "a gate on the way south."
  • 40 127 b. So Syr.; Heb. inserts "on the way south" after "gate to gate."
  • 40:300. Heb. inserts "round about" after "vestibule."
  • 40.370, 380. So LXX; Heb. "jambs" for "vestibule."
  • 40:420. Heb. inserts "for the burnt-offering" after "tables."
  • 40 42^. So Vrs.; Heb. "on them, and they were to lay."
  • 40:43 b. Heb. "and on the tables was the flesh of the sacrifice."
  • 40:440. So LXX; Heb. "And outside the inner gate were chambers for the officers."
  • 40:4* 8^. So LXX; Heb. "The gate was three cubits broad on each side."
  • 40:490. So LXX; Heb. "eleven" for "twelve."
  • 4* 0.496. So LXX; Heb. "It was by steps that it was reached."
  • 41:1*. So LXX; Heb. adds "the breadth of the tent."
  • 4* 1 :$b. So LXX, in part; Heb. "the door was six cubits, and the breadth of the door seven cubits."

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  • 41 :6a. So Vrs.; Heb. "chamber against chamber, thirty-three times."
  • 41:76. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "for the turning of the house was upward round about the house, therefore the breadth of the house was upward."
  • 41 :jc. So Vrs. i Heb. "And so the lower story rose," etc.
  • 41 :84. Heb. "And I saw for the house a raised platform round about."
  • 41 :86. Heb. "to the joining" (?) for "and six handbreadths high."
  • 41 :<)bt ioa. So LXX, in part; Heb. "and which a free space, the house of the side-chambers of the house, and between the chambers a breadth of twenty cubits," etc.
  • 41 :i54. Heb. "galleries" for "walls."
  • 41:16,17. Heb. unintelligible.
  • 41 :204. So LXX; Heb. "to above the door."
  • 41 :2i4. So MSS; Heb. "and the wall of the shrine (at end of vs. 20). The shrine was," etc.
  • 41 :2i6, 224. So LXX; Heb. "and the front of the shrine was the appearance like the appearance. The altar, of wood," etc.
  • 41 -226. So LXX; Heb. om. the breadth, and then reads "its corners, length, and sides being all of wood."
  • 41 .-25*. Heb. inserts "on the doors of the temple" after "on these."
  • 41:264. Heb. "latticed windows" for "cherubs."
  • 41 :i6a. Heb. "and the side-chambers of the temple and the canopies" for "and on the canopy."
  • 42 :i4. So LXX; Heb. "to the outer court, the way the way of the north."
  • 42 :2a. Heb. "The face of the length was a hundred cubits, on the north door."
  • 42:36. So Targum; Ht-b. "in thirties."
  • 42:44. So Vrs.; Heb. "inward, a way of one cubit" for "and a hundred cubits long."
  • 42 =46. Heb. only, "and their doors to the north."
  • 42:56. Heb. "for the galleries were stronger than they, from the lower and middle stories of the building."
  • 42:60. So LXX; Heb. om. "outer."
  • 42:6*. Heb. "lower" for "upper."
  • 42:96. So LXX; Heb. "in the breadth of the wall of the court" (at beginning of vs. 10).
  • 42:104. So LXX; Heb. "on the east side."
  • 42:116, 124. So LXX, in part; Heb. "like the length, so the breadth, and all their exits, and like their arrangements, and like their doors, and like the doors of the chambers which faced the south."
  • 42:156. So LXX; Heb. "and measured it."
  • 42 :i6. So Vrs.; Heb. adds "by the measuring rod" after "side."
  • 42:17, 1 8. So LXX; Heb. adds "round" to previous vs., and begins "He measured."
  • 43:34. So LXX; Heb. "And like the appearance the appearance which I saw." So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "when I came."
  • 43 :36. Heb. "and the appearance like the appearance."
  • 4* 3:64. So Vrs.; Heb. "a man."
  • 43:74. So Targum; Heb. "as to the place."
  • 43:76. Heb. adds "their high places" after "kings.**

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  • 43 «'io. So LXX; Heb. "the temple, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities, and may measure the pattern."
  • 43:110. So MSS and LXX; Heb. adds "forms" after "regulations."
  • 43:13*- So LXX; "And a pedestal the cubit, and one cubit broad, with its rim," etc.
  • 43:140. So LXX; Heb. "And from the pedestal on the ground."
  • 43:15*- So LXX; Heb. om. the length of the horns.
  • 43:17*. Heb. om. "upper."
  • 44:30. So LXX; Heb. "As for the prince, a prince may sit in it."
  • 44:5 6. Heb. "mark also the entrance to the temple, with all the exits of the sanctuary."
  • 44 :jb. So Vrs.; Heb. "They have broken my covenant to all your abominations."
  • 44*86, 90. So LXX; Heb. "but have introduced for keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for them. Thus says," etc.
  • 4:136. Heb. "and the abominations."
  • 44:190. So Vrs.; Heb. repeats "in the outer court."
  • 44:26. So Syr.; Heb. "and after he has been cleansed, they shall count for him seven days."
  • 44:270. So LXX; Heb. inserts "the sanctuary" after "enters."
  • 44:2X0. So Vulg.; Heb. "And it shall be to them for an inheritance."
  • 44:306. So Vrs.; Heb. "your home."
  • 45 10. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. repeats "lon£." So LXX; Heb. "ten thousand cubits broad."
  • 45*36. So Vrs., in part; Heb. inserts "and in it shall be the sanctuary" after "broad."
  • 45:4 6. So LXX; Heb. "for houses, and a sanctuary for the sanctuary."
  • 45:56. So LXX; Heb. "it shall be theirs for a property — twenty chambers."
  • 45:12. So LXX; Heb. "twenty shekels, five, and twenty shekels, ten, and five shekels, shall be your maneh." v
  • 45 :i 36. So Vrs.; Heb. "and your sixth."
  • 45 :i46. So Vrs., in part; Heb. inserts "the bath, the oil" after "oil," reads "homer" for "cor," and adds "for ten baths make one homer."
  • 45:150. So LXX; Heb. "the fat pastures of Israel."
  • 45:16. So LXX; Heb. "shall be to this contribution."
  • 45:170. So MSS; Heb. "burnt-offerings."
  • 45 :2o0. So LXX; Heb. "On the seventh day of the month."
  • 45:210. Heb. "fourteenth."
  • 45 :2i6. So Vrs.; Heb. "the Passover, a festival of weeks, unleavened bread shall be eaten."
  • 45:230. So Syr.; Heb. "daily for the seven clays."
  • 45:250. Heb. om. "and" before "during."
  • 46:106. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "they shall go out."
  • 46:13*, b. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "you" for "he,"
  • 46:140. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "you" for "he."
  • 46:146. So MSS and Vrs., in part, Heb. "a meal-offering to the LORD continually as standing orders."
  • 46:160. So LXX; Heb. "of his inheritance."
  • 46:166. Heb. "his sons . . . their property."

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  • 46.176. So Vrs.; Heb. "as for his inheritance, his sons — it shall belong to them."
  • 46.220. So Vrs. i Heb. "four enclosed (?) courts."
  • 46.236. Heb. "built with boiling-ranges."
  • 47:16. So Vrs.; Heb. "from under the south side."
  • 47:86. So Syr.; Heb. "the Sea, to the Sea, those brought out."
  • 47 9*. So Vrs.; Heb. "the streams goes."
  • 4 7 96. Heb. "that they may become fresh, and all where the stream goes may live."
  • 47:13*. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. &eh (?) for zeh ("this").
  • 47:136. So Vrs.; Heb. "portions" for "a double portion."
  • 47 :i 56. So LXX; Heb. "to the pass of Zed ad, Hamath."
  • 47:16. So LXX; Heb. "Hazer-hatticon" for "Hazer-enon."
  • 47:180. Heb. "and from the border between Gilead and Israel."
  • 47:186. So Vrs.; Heb. "from the border to the Eastern Sea shall you measure, and as for the eastern border."
  • 47 2oa. So Vrs.; Heb. om. "southern."
  • 48-1*. Heb. "at the side of the way of Hethlon."
  • 48:16. So LXX; Heb. "and they shall have the eastern side to the sea."
  • 48:96. Heb. "ten thousand" for "twenty thousand."
  • 48:10. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "twenty-five thousand cubits to the north, and a breadth of ten thousand to the west, and a breadth of ten thousand to the east, and a length of twenty-five thousand to the south."
  • 48.110. So Vrs.; Heb. "the consecrated portion shall be for the priests of the sons of Zadok."
  • 48-136. So LXX; Heb. "all of the length shall be twenty-five thousand cubits, and the breadth ten thousand."
  • 48:180. Heb. repeats "and it shall be alongside the sacred allotment" for "shall belong to the city."
  • 48:19*. So LXX; Heb. "worker" for "workers."
  • 4,8:21*. Heb. om. "east."
  • 48:216, 22. Heb. "the sacred allotment and the temple sanctuary shall be in the midst of it, and from the Levites property and the city property shall be," etc.
  • 48:28*. So Vrs.; Heb. "And on the border of Gad to the south, and the border shall run," etc.
  • 48.29*. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "from an inheritance."
  • 48:306,31*. Heb. transposes "On the north . . . measure" and "each gate . . . Israel."

NOTES ON THE BOOK OF DANIEL
...

  • i -36. So MSS; Heb. "and of the royal family."
  • i -20*, 6. So Vrs.; Heb. om. "and" after "wisdom" and after "magicians."
  • 2-1*, 26. So Vrs.; Heb. "dreamed dreams."
  • 2:16. Heb. "his sleep became upon him."
  • 2:24*. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "to to Arioch."
  • 2:34. So Vrs. (cf. vs. 4 5); Heb. here om. "from a mountain."
  • 3:8*. So Vrs.; Heb. "Therefore."
  • 3* :i46. So Vrs.; Heb. "Is it of set purpose."
  • 3.29*. Heb. "who speaks carelessly against the God," etc.

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  • 4:9^- So Theod., in parti Heb. "tell (me) the visions of my dream that I have seen, and its interpretation."
  • 4:15*. Cf. vs. 2 ic; Heb. here "with the beasts in the grass of the earth."
  • 4 :i yc, /. So by slight changes in the text.
  • 4:20*. So MSS (cf. i ict 226) i Heb. "to all the earth."
  • 4:226. So MSS and Vrs. (cf. i ic, 206); Heb. "to the end of the earth."
  • 5 :30. So Vrs. (cf . 20); Heb. only "vessels of gold."
  • 5:3* *. So Vrs. i Heb. inserts "of the house of God" after "the temple."
  • 5 :6a. So by slight changes in the text.
  • 5* :1 ic. So Theod.i Heb. adds "your father the king" after "astrologers."
  • 5 :i 26. So by slight changes in the text.
  • 5* :i 76. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. om. "of it."
  • 5:206. So Vrs.i Heb. "of glory."
  • 5* :25. So Vrs.i Heb. repeats "Mene" and reads plural "Parsin."
  • 6:100. So MSS and with a slight change in the Heb.
  • 7 :20. Heb. "Daniel answered, saying." Vrs. om. the phrase.
  • 7 :$a. So Vrs.; Heb. "another, a second, beast."
  • 7:1 1 a. So Vrs.; Heb. repeats "I watched till" after "spoken."
  • 7:150. So LXX; Heb. "in its sheath" (?).
  • 7:220. Cf. vss. 140, 270, 6, Heb. here om. "and dominion was given."
  • 8:2. So Theod.i Heb. inserts "And I saw in the vision" at the beginning, and also after "Elam."
  • 8:50. So Vrs.i Heb. "the he-goat."
  • 8:56. Heb. "none touching the earth." LXX om. the phrase.
  • 8:86. So LXX; Heb. "the appearance of four."
  • 8 :90. Heb. "one horn from a little one."
  • 8:96. Heb. "and the glory."
  • 8:120. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "And a host was given upon the continual offering with crime, and it cast clown truth," etc.
  • 8:130. So Vrs.i Heb. "the vision (of) the continual offering, and the desolating crime to give," etc.
  • 8:196. So Theod.i Heb. "it relates to the appointed time of the end."
  • 8:20. So Vrs.; Heb. "kings."
  • 8:210. So Vrs.$ Heb. "the hairy goat."
  • 8:220. Heb. "As for that which was broken."
  • 8:226. So Vrs.; Heb. "from a nation."
  • 8:230. So Vrs. i Heb. "transgressors."
  • 8:246, 250. So LXXi Heb. "and the people of the saints. And upon his design, and he shall cause," etc.
  • 8:270. So MSS and LXX; Heb. "for days"
  • 9:176. So Theod.i Heb. "for the sake of the Lord."
  • 9:22. So Vrs.i Heb. "and he made me understand."
  • 9:230. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. om. "to you."
  • 9:236. So Theod.i Heb. "you are beloved things."
  • 9:246. So MSSi Heb. "to restrain the crime."
  • 9:250". So Syr.i Heb. "square and moat (?)."
  • 9:260. So LXX; Heb. "And in the distress of the times" (at end of vs. 25), "and after," etc.

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  • 9:266. Heb. "and none to him."
  • 9:26?. So MSS and Vrs., in part; Heb. "shall the people of a prince destroy."
  • 9:26^. So LXX, in part; Heb. "He who is coming, and his end in a flood, and war to the end, determined is desolations."
  • 9 :27<z. Heb. "for one week he shall make a strong covenant with many."
  • 9:276. So Vrs.) Heb. "he shall make sacrifice and offering to cease."
  • 9:271. Heb. "on the wing of abominations shall be a desolating thing."
  • 10:5. So MSS; Heb. "Uphaz."
  • 10:76. Heb. "in hiding themselves."
  • 10:96. So Vrs.; Heb. "on my face, with my face to the ground."
  • 10:116. Heb. transposes "stand upright" and "and pay heed," etc.
  • 10:136. So Vrs.; Heb. "I was left there with the kings of Persia."
  • 10:146. Heb. "for there is yet a vision for the days."
  • 10:196. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "Be strong, and be- strong!"
  • 10:21. Heb. transposes the two sentences, reading "I standing up to support and defend him" (in n :i) for "who stands up," etc.
  • 1 1 :i. Heb. inserts "And I in the first year of Darius the Mede."
  • 1 1 i^a. Heb. "when he arises."
  • 1 1 :56. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "but one of his captains, and he shall be stronger than he, and shall rule — his kingdom a great kingdom."
  • 1 1 :6c. Heb. "and shall not stand, and his influence."
  • ii :6d. So Theod.; Heb. "her father" for "her son."
  • ii :7«. So Vrs.; Heb. "In the times (at end of vs. 6), and there shall arise from the scion of her roots his place."
  • 1 1 :76. Heb. "to the army."
  • 1 1 \ic. So LXX; Heb. "and shall deal with them, and shall overcome."
  • II:IM. So LXX; Heb. "his sons."
  • 1 1 :io6. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "shall surely come" (without "against him").
  • 1 1 :ij6. Heb. "and at the end of the times, years." See also note on 106.
  • 1 1 :i56. Heb. "even their picked troops, and there shall be," etc.
  • ii :i66. So Vrs.; Heb. "with destruction in his hand."
  • 11:170. Heb. om. "against the king of the south."
  • ii 1176. So Vrs., in part; Heb. "and upright men with him, and he shall make, and he shall give him the daughter of women, to destroy it."
  • 1 1 :i86. Suggested by LXX; Heb. "so as not to repay his insolence to him."
  • 1 1 :zz. Heb. "The armed forces of the flood shall be swept away before him, and shall be broken, and also the prince of the covenant."
  • 1 1 ^36. Heb. attaches "by means of stealth" to vs. 24.
  • ii :336. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. om. "many."
  • 11:390. Heb. "He snaU deal with the strongest fortresses by the help of an alien god."
  • 11:41*. Heb. "many" (fern.) for "myriads."
  • 1 1 :4i6. So Syr.; Heb. "the first" for "the remnant."
  • 1 1 :45*. So MSS and Vrs.; Heb. "the tents of his palace." So Syr.; Heb. "the seas."
  • 1 2 :26. Heb. "to reproaches and everlasting contempt."
  • 1 2 :46. So LXX, in part; Heb. "many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be much."
  • 12:60. So Vrs.; Heb. "he said"

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  • 12:76. So LXX; Heb. "after he who shattered the power of the holy people," etc.
  • 12:120. So Vrs.$ Heb. "go your way till the end comes, and rest."

NOTES ON THE BOOK OF HOSEA
...

  • i \yd. So with ancient authorities, Heb. "I will not be to you."
  • 2:1. So with LXX; Heb. "your brothers," "your sisters."
  • 2 -.yd. So with LXX; Heb. "so as to cover her nakedness."
  • 4:4^. So by elision of two similar letters; Heb. "For thy people are like those who accuse a priest."
  • 4:5*;. So by change of one consonant; Heb. "thy mother."
  • 4:7^. So with Syr. and Targum; Heb. "I will exchange."
  • 4:ioc. So by bringing first word of vs. n back to vs. 10 and by slight correction of one word. Heb. ."They have forsaken the LORD to keep."
  • 4:15*?. "At Beersheba" is inserted here on the basis of Amos 5:5 and 8:14 and to correspond to the context.
  • 4:17*. So by joining the first two words of vs. 18 with vs. 17 and by a change of pointing, partly supported by the versions. Heb. is unintelligible.
  • 4:i8/». So by change of vowels, following LXX; Heb. "they love shame, her shields."
  • 4:19*. So with Vrs.; Heb. "of their sacrifices."
  • 5 :za. So by corrected text. Heb. "The revolters have gone deep in slaughter."
  • S'-ICyd* So following LXX; Heb. "a month will devour them and their fields."
  • 5:8^. So following LXX; Heb. "Behind thee, Benjamin."
  • 5 :i ib. So by slight change; Heb. "Because he was willing."
  • 5 :i i£. So with Vrs.; Heb. "after a command."
  • 5 :i $d. So by redistribution of consonants; Heb. "to king Vareb."
  • 6:36. So with LXX; Heb. "His going forth is sure as the dawn."
  • 6-3**. So with Syr.; Heb. "that teaches the land."
  • 6:5r. So with Vrs.; Heb. "And thy judgments are like a light that goes forth."
  • 6:7*. So with context; Heb. "agreement like Adam."
  • 6:ioa. So after context; Heb. "In the house of Israel I," etc.
  • 7 \ar-c* So by redistribution of letters; Heb. "they are all adulterers; like an oven burning from the baker."
  • 7 :$a. So by slight change of text; Heb. "On the day your king," etc.
  • 7 :_<;£. So by redistribution of consonants, Heb. "He stretched out (?) his hand with scorners."
  • 7 :i2C. So with LXX in part; Heb. "[?] . . . according to the report to their congregation."
  • 7:14*:. So with LXX and some Heb. MSS; Heb. "they assemble themselves (? ), thov depart with me."
  • 7:i6<r. So by slight correction; Heb. "they turn, not upon."
  • 7:i6d. So by slight correction; Heb. "Because of the indignation of their tongue, which is their scorn, in the land of Egypt."
  • 8 12. So with Vrs.; Heb. "we know thee, Israel."
  • 8 :ioc. So with LXX; Heb. "And they began [to be] little from the burden of king and princes."
  • 8 :n*. Heb. adds "for sinning"' after "multiplied altars."

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  • X 12. So by slight changes; Heb. "I will write for him my law in myriads; they are reckoned (as those of) a foreigner."
  • 8 . 1 3 ?. So by slight correction; Heb. "As f o; the sacrifices of my sacrificial gifts, they sacrifice flesh," etc.
  • 9:2*. So with LXX; Heb. "not feed them."
  • 9:2*. So with Vrs.; Heb. "fail her."
  • 9:4^. So by change of one letter; Heb. "nor will their sacrifices be pleasing unto him," or "nor will they be pleasing to him; their sacrifices like mourners' bread to them."
  • 9:4*'. So by slight change; Heb. "to them," for "their food."
  • 9 ,6d. So by slight change; Heb. "The desire of their silver nettles shall possess."
  • 9 80. So by slight change of vowels; Heb. "And great is the opposition; Ephraim is a watchman with my God."
  • 9:io/. So with context; Heb. "to shame."
  • 9:13**. So in part with LXX, and with redistribution of letters; Heb. "Ephraim — as I have seen Tyre, planted in a meadow."
  • io:i£. So with LXX; Heb. "He yields (?) fruit to himself."
  • 10:50*. So by change of one consonant, and in keeping with context; Heb. "they will exult," etc.
  • io:6b. So by new distribution of consonants as in 5:13; Heb. "king Yareb."
  • i o :6d. So by change of one consonant; Heb. "of its counsel."
  • 10.9^. So by change of two consonants; Heb. "there they stood."
  • 10:100. So by uniting the last phrase of vs. 9 with vs. 10 and reading the verb with the LXX; Heb. "When I desire, then I will chastise them."
  • io:ioc. So by change of vowels; Heb. "When they are bound to their two crimes."
  • io:n£. So by slight correction; Heb. "I will pass over upon her fair neck."
  • 10:126. So by addition of one consonant; Heb. "reap according to piety."
  • io:i2C. So by transposition of one consonant; Heb. "till he come and teach you righteousness."
  • io.i3f. So with LXX; Heb. "trusted in your ways," etc.
  • 10.150. So with LXX; Heb. "O Bethel."
  • 10:156. So by change of one consonant; Heb. "In the dawn," etc.
  • 1 1 -3*. So with Vrs.; Heb. "in his arms."
  • 11 14^,^. So with slight corrections; Heb. "And I was to them like those removing the yoke upon their jaws, and gently toward him I caused to eat; not will return," etc.
  • 1 1 :$a. So with LXX; Heb. "He will return to the land of Egypt."
  • 1 1 :60. So by slight change; Heb. "The sword will whirl," etc.
  • 1 1 :i ic. So with LXX; Heb. "I will cause them to dwell upon their homes."
  • 1 2 :ib. So by slight change of one letter; Heb. "like a vulture."
  • 12-4^. So with context; Heb. "talked with us."
  • i2'8£,r. So following the LXX; Heb. "All my gains will not find for me guilt which is sin."
  • \2\i\b. So by slight change; Heb. "In Gilgal they sacrifice oxen."
  • 12:12. This vs. is placed after vs. 4, since its connection is with the Jacob episode and not at all with the context of vs. 12.
  • 1 3:1 b. So with context; Heb. "He lifted up in Israel."
  • 1 3 :ze. So with LXX; Heb. "to such they are saying, sacrificers of men," etc.

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  • 13 :5«. So with Vrs.; Heb. "I knew you in the wilderness."
  • 13:9. So following Vrs.; Heb. "It is your destruction, O Israel, that (you are) against me, against your help."
  • 13 noa. So with context by slight change; Heb. "I will be your king now."
  • 13 nob. So partly with Vrs.; Heb. "In all your cities and your rulers."
  • 14:2^. So with context; Heb. "And take good."
  • 14:2*. So with Vrs.; Heb. "We will repay as calves our lips."
  • 14:5^:. So by slight change and with context; Heb. "And he will strike his roots like Lebanon."
  • 14:8^. So by slight change to fit context; Heb. "I answer and look upon him."
  • i4:8<;. So with LXX; Heb. "thy fruit."

NOTES ON THE BOOK OF JOEL
...

  • i \ija. So in part with LXX; Heb. is unintelligible,
  • i .180. So with LXX; Heb. "How the beasts groan!"
  • 1 :i8^. So with LXX; Heb. "Have become guilty."
  • Z-2.C. So by slight vowel change, with context; Heb. "Like dawn spread," etc.
  • 2:8<*,</. So by slight changes; Heb. "Though they fall through an arrow, they are not broken."
  • 2:23^. So by change of vowel; Hrb. reads "warning" as the sign of the definite object before the following word.
  • 2.23£. So with Vrs., Heb. "rains in the first."
  • 3 -\a. So with Vrs.; Heb. "Come to help and come."
  • 3 :2oc. So with LXX; Heb. "I will purify their blood."

NOTES ON THE BOOK OF AMOS
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  • 2:70. So in part with LXX; Heb. "They pant upon the dust of the earth for the head of the poor."
  • 2 .'jb. So by slight change; Heb. "They turn aside the way of the humble."
  • 3 15 A. So with LXX; Heb. adds one word, "Fall upon a trap of the earth."
  • 3:90. So with LXX; Heb. "palaces in Ashdod."
  • 3 :i i £. So by slight change of vowels; Heb. "An enemy and round about the land."
  • 3 :i 2. So by slight change; Heb. "couch and with the damask of a bed."
  • 4:3^. So by slight change; Heb. "And you shall hurl to the Harmon."
  • 5:9. So with slight changes, based in part upon the LXX; Heb. "Who causes destruction to shine upon the strong,/ And destruction comes upon a fortress."
  • 5 26. So with slight changes, based in part upon the- LXX; Heb. "And you shall carry away Siccuth your king and Chiun your linages, the star of your god," etc.
  • 6 -ir, d. So by slight change to fit context; Heb. "Thr marked ones of the chief of the nations and the house of Israel enters in to them."
  • 6:56. So by change of one letter; Heb. "Devising musical instruments," etc.
  • 6:9. So with LXX; Heb. om. "one being left ov.er."
  • 8:3^. So with slight change; Heb. "In every place one shall cast forth. Hush!"
  • 8:1 if. So with Vrs.; Heb. "the words of."

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NOTES ON THE BOOK OF OBADIAH
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  • ^b. So with duplicate passage Jer, 49:15$ Heb. "Contemptible are you exceedingly."
  • yd. So to agree with context; Heb. "Your bread they make a snare (?) under you."
  • 1 6b. So with Vrs.; Heb. "drink continually."
  • 20*. Reconstructed in keeping with II Kings 17:6; Heb. is unintelligible, "and the exiles, this host (?) of the Israelites, who are Canaanites, unto Zarephath, and the exiles of Jerusalem," etc.

NOTES ON THE BOOK OF JONAH
...

  • 2:46. So with Theod.; Heb. "But yet I shall again look," etc.

NOTES ON THE BOOK OF MICAH
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  • 1:5*. SowithVrs.; Heb. "sins."
  • 1 15 £. So with context; cf. 50, /. Heb. "house of Israel."
  • i :io£. So by slight change and, in part, with LXX; Heb. "Weeping do not weep; in Beth-leaphrah I rolled myself in dust."
  • i :na. So with context; Heb. "Do thou pass over for yourselves, O inhabitant of Shaphir."
  • 1:1 ic. So by slight change of vowels; Heb. "in nakedness, shame, she comes not forth"; LXX om. "shame."
  • i :i iet f. So with slight change; Heb. "The mourning of Beth-czcl takes from you its standing."
  • 1 :i2«. So by change of one consonant; Heb. "Surely, has hoped for good," etc.
  • 2 :3C. So by slight correction; Heb. "Whence you will not remove your necks."
  • 2 '.Ofb. So with Vrs.; Heb. "And one will lament a lamentation, it has come to pass, he says."
  • ^:^c-f. Rearranged and corrected, in part with LXX, Heb. "We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people. How he does remove to me ! In restoring our fields, he apportions."
  • 2 :$ay b. So by slight change; Heb. "Therefore you shall have no one casting the line by lot in the temple of the LORD."
  • 2:6c. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "Shame will not depart."
  • 2 :ja. So by slight change; Heb. "Shall it be said, 0 house of Jacob?"
  • z:$a,b. So by redistribution of consonants and, in part, with LXX; Heb. "And yesterday my people as a foe raised up from before the mantle a cloak."
  • z%d. So by slight change; Heb. "Returned from war."
  • 2:ioc. So by change of one consonant; Heb. "Because of uncleanness."
  • 2:io<£ So with LXX; Heb. "Which destroys and a grievous destruction (?).M
  • 2:12*. So in part with LXX; Heb. "They shall roar (?) because of mankind."
  • 4:14*. So by slight change; Heb. "Now you will gather yourself in troops (?), O daughter of troops (?)."
  • 5:4/1. So by slight change; Heb. "And this will be our peace. Assyria, when," etc.
  • 5 :4<r. So by change of one consonant; Heb. "when he treads in our palaces."
  • 5:5*. So by slight change; Heb. "Nimrod in its entrances."
  • 6:26. So by slight change, with context; Heb. "And the enduring ones, the foundations of the earth.11

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THE BOOK OF HABAKKUK
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  • 6:<)b. So with Vrs.; Heb. "and success — he sees thy name!"
  • 6:9^. So by slight change; Heb. "Hear ye the rod, and him appointed it!"
  • 6:10*. So by slight change \ Heb. "Are there yet wicked treasures in the house of the wicked?"
  • 6 :iia. So partly with Vulg.; Heb. "Can I be pure with," etc.
  • 6:14.$. So in keeping with context; Heb. is unintelligible.
  • 6:i6a. So with Vrs.; Heb. "And he observes for himself the statutes," etc.
  • 6:i6e. So with LXX; Heb. "mockery of my people," etc.
  • 7:1 b. So by slight change; Heb. "Like the gatherings of summer fruit."
  • 7 :ic. So by change of one letter; Heb. "Like the gleanings," etc.
  • 7:30. So by slight change; Heb. "Upon the bad are their hands to make good."
  • 7:3^, d. So with context; Heb. "the desire of himself, and they weave it."
  • 7:4^. So by redistribution of letters; Heb. "Straighter than a hedge."
  • 7:4?. So by slight change; Heb. "thy watchmen, thy visitation."

NOTES ON THE BOOK OF NAHUM
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  • i. Was originally an acrostic poein; clear traces of the acrostic are still to be seen in vss. 2—10.
  • i :4C. So with Vrs.; Heb. "languish" for "wither."
  • 1 150. So by infinitesimal change, and with Vulg.; Heb. "And thou didst lift up the world," etc.
  • 7«. So with Vrs.; Heb. "The LORD is good for a stronghold," etc.
  • :8£. So with Vrs.; Heb. "He will make an end of her place."
  • :$c. So in part with LXX; Heb. "Affliction will not arise twice."
  • :ioa. So with LXX in part, and with changes to make sense; Heb. "Thorns entwined and like their drink drunken."
  • :izb. So by slight change; Heb. "If they be whole and so many."
  • :izc. So with slight change; Heb. "and he will pass away."
  • :i3#. So with change in pointing; Heb. "break his yoke," etc.
  • :i±d. So with slight change; Heb. "I will make your grave because you are worthless."
  • 2:4</. So with slight change; Heb. "The chariot in the day of its preparation."
  • 2:4*. So with LXX; Heb. "And the cypresses will tremble."
  • 2:20. So by change of vowels; Heb. "the scatterer," etc.
  • 2:8*. So by change to agree with context; Heb. "And hussab, she is carried with captivity, she is caused to ascend."
  • 2:12^. So by transposition of one consonant; Heb. "A feeding place is it for the young lions."

NOTES ON THE BOOK OF HABAKKUK
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  • i :jb. So in part with LXX; Heb. "His judgment and his majesty go forth from him."
  • i Kb. So by slight vowel change; Heb. "wolves of the evening."
  • i :yb. So by slight change; Heb. "[?] . . . their faces, eastward."
  • i :izb. So with old MSS; Heb. "We shall not die."
  • i\ija. So by slight change, with context; Heb. "Shall he therefore, empty his net?"
  • z:id. So with Syr.; Heb. "I shall make."
  • 2 30. So by slight change; Heb. has "still" for "witness."
  • 2 :±a. So with Vrs. in part; Heb. "Behold, swollen, not straight is he in himself."
  • Z-.zb. So with LXX; Heb. "I feared," etc.
  • 3:2^. §p by slight change and with context; Heb. "revive it."
  • 3:7*. So by regrouping of consonants; Heb. "Under wrong, I have seen the tents of Cushan."
  • 3:8 b. So by dropping one consonant; Heb. "Is thine anger with the rivers?"
  • 3 *)b. So by correction to fit context; Heb. "the oaths of the tribes were a word."
  • 3:10^. So by slight change, and as in Ps. 77:18; Heb. "A rainstorm, water, passes over."
  • 3 :i 3</. So by slight change; Heb. "Even to the neck."
  • 3:14*. So by slight change; Heb. "Thou piercest a head with his arrows."
  • 3 .ij.b. So by slight change; Heb. "His perazim rage."
  • 3:14*:. So by slight changes; Heb. "Their joy (?) is to scatter me like as to devour," etc.
  • 3 :i6d. So with LXX; Heb. "And under me I tremble because."

NOTES ON THE BOOK OF ZEPHANIAH
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  • 2:20, b. So in part with LXX and with slight changes; Heb. "Before the bearing of a decree, the day passes like chaff."
  • 2 7 b. So by slight change; Heb. "Upon them shall they feed."
  • 2 \±b. So with Vrs.; Heb. "Every beast of the nation."
  • 2:140, /. So in part with LXX; Heb. "Their voice shall be in the window; desolation in the threshold."
  • 2 : 1 4.g. So by slight change; Heb. "For he shall uncover her cedar."
  • 3:3f. So by change of one consonant with Syr.; Heb. "Who have not gnawed bones in the morning."
  • 3:70. So with context; Heb. "Thou wilt fear me" and "thou wilt accept."
  • 3:7 b. So with Vrs.; Heb. "And her dwelling will not be cut off."
  • 3 :8&. So with Vrs.; Heb. "arise to prey."
  • 3 :io£. So by slight change; Heb. is unintelligible.
  • 3:17^. So with Vrs.; Heb. "He will be silent in his love."
  • 3:18*. So with LXX; Heb. is unintelligible.
    1. i 8 A, t. So in part with Vrs.; Heb. "I will gather up from thee they were the raising of a reproach upon her."

NOTES ON THE BOOK OF HAGGAI
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  • i~jb. So with LXX; Heb. "And the desire of all nations," etc.
  • 2:160. So with LXX; Heb. "From their being, one came," etc.

NOTES ON THE BOOK OF ZECHARIAH
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  • 2 i ib, c. So with LXX; Heb. "And they will become my people and I shall dwell," etc.
  • 3 :za. So with context; Heb. "And the LORD said," etc.
  • 5.36. So by slight change and as in 7:3; Heb. "For all thieves on this (side) shall be purged out in accord with it, and all forsworn on that (side) shall be purged out according to it."

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  • 5:6c. So with LXX; Heb. "This is their eye," etc.
  • 6-3*. Oin. "strong" after "dappled" with Syr.
  • 6:6b. So by slight change; Heb. "the white will go after them."
  • 6:10*. So by slight change; Heb. "Take from with the exiles," etc.
  • 6:1 itf. So by slight change; Heb. "crowns."
  • 6:nb. So to agree with context; Heb. "the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the chief priest."
  • 7:140. So by slight change; Heb. "And I will scatter them," etc.
  • 8:i2«. So with LXX; Heb. "For the seed of prosperity the vine shall yield as Us "fruit."
  • 9.16. So by slight change; Heb. "For the eye of man belongs to the LORD," etc.
  • 9:10*. So with LXX; Heb. "I will cut off," etc.
  • 9:1 $t\ So with LXX; Heb. "And they shall drink, they shall roar, like wine."
  • 9 .1 bb, c. So by slight change and rearrangement; Heb. "Like a flock of his people; for as stones of a dud em they shall be lifted up like a standard upon his land."
  • io-.ua. So in part with LXX; Heb. "And affliction shall pass over the sea."
  • 10 : i zb. So with Vrs.; Heb. "They shall walk to and fro in his name."
  • 1 1 :6b. So by slight change of vowels; Heb. "come each into the power of his neighbors."
  • 1 1 "ja. So with LXX; Heb. "therefore, the poor of the flock."
  • 1 1 :i 3f. So with context; Heb. "I have been valued," etc.
  • 1 1 :i$d. So with Vrs.; Heb. reads "the potter" both times for "the treasury."
  • i 3 :7</. So with some Vjs.; Heb. "Smite the shepherd," etc.
  • 12 4^. So by slight change, and with context; Heb. "But upon the house of Judah I will open my eyes."
  • 12:5*7, 6a. Read "families," by slight change, for "chieftains."
  • 1 2 .job. So by slight change to fit context; Heb. "look at me whom," etc.
  • 1 3 '5£. So by slight change, Heb. "For mankind has purchased me from my youth."
  • i4*{0- So by slight change and with context; Heb. has for "valley of Hinnom" «n both cases "valley of my mountain" and "valley of mountains."
  • 14 :5/>. So in part with Vrs.; Heb. "And the LORD my God, will come, all the holy ones with thee."
  • 14.6^. So in part with Vrs.; Heb. "There shall be no light, precious things, and frost."
  • 14:186. So with Vrs.; Heb. "then there shall not fall upon them," etc.

NOTES ON THE BOOK OF MALACHI
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  • ; :$c. So with Vrs.; Heb. "and his heritage for jackals of the wilderness."
  • 1 :7c. So with LXX, Heb. "polluted thee."
  • 2:3^. So with context by slight change; Heb. "and he will carry you away unto it."
  • 2 1 5/. So with Syr.; Heb. "thy youth."
  • 2-i6a. So by slight change; Heb. "For he hates to divorce . . . and covers," etc.
  • 3 :i 6a. So with LXX; Heb. "Then," etc.

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