23:19 Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Isn’t David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh on the hill of Hakilah, south of Jeshimon? 23:20 Now at your own discretion, 1 O king, come down. Delivering him into the king’s hand will be our responsibility.”
23:21 Saul replied, “May you be blessed by the Lord, for you have had compassion on me. 23:22 Go and make further arrangements. Determine precisely 2 where he is 3 and who has seen him there, for I am told that he is extremely cunning. 23:23 Locate precisely all the places where he hides and return to me with dependable information. 4 Then I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will find him 5 among all the thousands of Judah.”
23:15 “Woe to you, experts in the law 6 and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, 7 and when you get one, 8 you make him twice as much a child of hell 9 as yourselves!
1 tn Heb “to all the desire of your soul.”
2 tn Heb “know and see.” The expression is a hendiadys. See also v. 23.
3 tn Heb “his place where his foot is.”
4 tn Heb “established.”
5 tn Heb “I will search him out.”
6 tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.
7 tn Or “one proselyte.”
8 tn Grk “when he becomes [one].”
9 tn Grk “a son of Gehenna.” Expressions constructed with υἱός (Juios) followed by a genitive of class or kind denote a person belonging to the class or kind specified by the following genitive (L&N 9.4). Thus the phrase here means “a person who belongs to hell.”
10 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.