Text -- 1 Samuel 20:23 (NET)

20:23 With regard to the matter that you and I discussed, the Lord is the witness between us forever!”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 1Sa 20:23

¹ tc Heb “the Lord [is] between me and between you forever.” The translation assumes that the original text read עֵד עַד־עוֹלָם (’ed ’ad-’olam), “a witness forever,” with the noun “a witness” accidentally falling out of the text by haplography. See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 338.