translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “his”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “he”; the referent (Samuel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “Is it not that the Lord has anointed you?” The question draws attention to the fact and is a rhetorical way of affirming the Lord’s choice of Saul. The translation reflects the rhetorical force of the question.


text: That is, “anointed.”


label: NET textual note

text: The MT reads simply “Is it not that the Lord has anointed you over his inheritance for a leader?” The translation follows the LXX. The MT apparently suffers from parablepsis, whereby a scribe’s eye jumped from the first occurrence of the expression “the Lord has anointed you” to the second occurrence of this expression at the end of v. 1 . This mistake caused the accidental omission of the intervening material in the LXX, which appears to preserve the original Hebrew text here.


text: For location see Map4-G4 ; Map5-C1 ; Map6-E3 ; Map7-D1 ; Map8-G3 .


text: Or “sentries.” Some translate “outpost” (NIV) or “garrison” (NAB, NRSV, NLT) here (see 1 Sam 13:3 ). The noun is plural in the Hebrew text, but the LXX and other ancient witnesses read a singular noun here.


text: Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “turned his shoulder.”


text: Heb “God turned for him another heart”; NAB, NRSV “gave him another heart”; NIV, NCV “changed Saul’s heart”; TEV “gave Saul a new nature”; CEV “made Saul feel like a different person.”


text: Two medieval Hebrew mss , the LXX, and the Syriac Peshitta have the singular “he” (in which case the referent would be Saul alone). tn Heb “they”; the referents (Saul and his servant) have been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “him”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “And we saw that they were not.”


text: In the LXX and Vulgate the pronoun “you” is singular, referring specifically to Saul. In the MT it is plural, including Saul’s servant as well.


text: Heb “hand” (also later in this verse).


text: The translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss , the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate in reading לֹא ( lo ’, “not”) rather than the MT לוֹ ( lo ; “to him”). Some witnesses combine the variants, resulting in a conflated text. For example, a few medieval Hebrew mss have לֹא לוֹ ( lo lo ’; “to him, ‘No.’”). A few others have לֹא לִי ( li lo ’; “to me, ‘No.’”).


text: Or “baggage” (so many English versions); KJV “stuff”; TEV “supplies.”


text: Heb “the regulation of the kingship.” This probably refers to the regulations pertaining to kingship given to Moses (see Deut 17:14-20 ).


text: Heb “sons of worthlessness” (see 2:12 ).


text: In place of the MT (“and it was like one being silent”) the LXX has “after about a month,” taking the expression with the first part of the following chapter rather than with 10:27 . Some Hebrew support for this reading appears in the corrected hand of a Qumran ms of Samuel, which has here “about a month.” However, it seems best to stay with the MT here even though it is difficult.