Discovery Box2 Samuel 20:1
Context20:1 Now a wicked man 1 named Sheba son of Bicri, a Benjaminite, 2 happened to be there. He blew the trumpet 3 and said,
“We have no share in David;
we have no inheritance in this son of Jesse!
Every man go home, 4 O Israel!”
2 Samuel 20:1
Context20:1 Now a wicked man 5 named Sheba son of Bicri, a Benjaminite, 6 happened to be there. He blew the trumpet 7 and said,
“We have no share in David;
we have no inheritance in this son of Jesse!
Every man go home, 8 O Israel!”
2 Samuel 12:16-17
Context12:16 Then David prayed to 9 God for the child and fasted. 10 He would even 11 go and spend the night lying on the ground. 12:17 The elders of his house stood over him and tried to lift him from the ground, but he was unwilling, and refused to eat food with them.
[20:1] 1 tn Heb “a man of worthlessness.”
[20:1] 2 tn The expression used here יְמִינִי (yÿmini) is a short form of the more common “Benjamin.” It appears elsewhere in 1 Sam 9:4 and Esth 2:5. Cf. 1 Sam 9:1.
[20:1] 3 tn Heb “the shophar” (the ram’s horn trumpet). So also v. 22.
[20:1] 4 tc The MT reads לְאֹהָלָיו (lÿ’ohalav, “to his tents”). For a similar idiom, see 19:9. An ancient scribal tradition understands the reading to be לְאלֹהָיו (le’lohav, “to his gods”). The word is a tiqqun sopherim, and the scribes indicate that they changed the word from “gods” to “tents” so as to soften its theological implications. In a consonantal Hebrew text the change involved only the metathesis of two letters.
[20:1] 5 tn Heb “a man of worthlessness.”
[20:1] 6 tn The expression used here יְמִינִי (yÿmini) is a short form of the more common “Benjamin.” It appears elsewhere in 1 Sam 9:4 and Esth 2:5. Cf. 1 Sam 9:1.
[20:1] 7 tn Heb “the shophar” (the ram’s horn trumpet). So also v. 22.
[20:1] 8 tc The MT reads לְאֹהָלָיו (lÿ’ohalav, “to his tents”). For a similar idiom, see 19:9. An ancient scribal tradition understands the reading to be לְאלֹהָיו (le’lohav, “to his gods”). The word is a tiqqun sopherim, and the scribes indicate that they changed the word from “gods” to “tents” so as to soften its theological implications. In a consonantal Hebrew text the change involved only the metathesis of two letters.
[12:16] 9 tn Heb “sought” or “searched for.”
[12:16] 10 tn Heb “and David fasted.”
[12:16] 11 tn The three Hebrew verbs that follow in this verse are perfects with prefixed vav. They may describe repeated past actions or actions which accompanied David’s praying and fasting.
