6:19 But the Lord 3 struck down some of the people of Beth Shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the Lord; he struck down 50,070 4 of the men. The people grieved because the Lord had struck the people with a hard blow.
9:1 There was a Benjaminite man named Kish son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah of Benjamin. He was a prominent person.
20:41 When the servant had left, David got up from beside the mound, 6 knelt 7 with his face to the ground, and bowed three times. Then they kissed each other and they both wept, especially David.
1 tn Heb “they”; the referent (Eli’s sons) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “desired.”
3 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
4 tc The number 50,070 is surprisingly large, although it finds almost unanimous textual support in the MT and in the ancient versions. Only a few medieval Hebrew
5 tn Heb “and all the army brought near, each his ox by his hand, and they slaughtered there.”
7 tc The translation follows the LXX in reading “the mound,” rather than the MT’s “the south.” It is hard to see what meaning the MT reading “from beside the south” would have as it stands, since such a location lacks specificity. The NIV treats it as an elliptical expression, rendering the phrase as “from the south side of the stone (rock NCV).” This is perhaps possible, but it seems better to follow the LXX rather than the MT here.
8 tn Heb “fell.”
9 tn Heb “who rode on camels and fled.”