translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “said to his heart.”


text: Heb “a man and his house.”


text: Heb “the number of the days.”


text: Heb “days.” The plural of the word “day” is sometimes used idiomatically to refer specifically to a year. In addition to this occurrence in v. 7 see also 1 Sam 1:3, 21; 2:19; 20:6 ; Lev 25:29 ; Judg 17:10 .


text: Heb “from where you come.”


text: Heb “the land.”


label: NET textual note

text: The translation follows the LXX ( ἐπι τίνα , epi tina ) and Vulgate ( in quem ) which assume אֶל מִי (’ el mi , “to whom”) rather than the MT אַל (’ al , “not”). The MT makes no sense here. Another possibility is that the text originally had אַן (’ an , “where”), which has been distorted in the MT to אַל . Cf. the Syriac Peshitta and the Targum, which have “where.”


text: Heb “all the days.”


text: Heb “saying.”


text: Heb “he really stinks.” The expression is used figuratively here to describe the rejection and ostracism that David had experienced as a result of Saul’s hatred of him.


text: Many medieval Hebrew mss lack the preposition “in.”


text: Heb “permanently.”