translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

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


text: Heb “the soul of Jonathan was bound with the soul of David.”


text: Heb “like his [own] soul.” sn On the nature of Jonathan’s love for David, see J. A. Thompson, “The Significance of the Verb Love in the David-Jonathan Narratives in 1 Samuel,” VT 24 (1974): 334-38.


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


text: Heb “like his [own] soul.”


text: Heb “it was good in the eyes of all the people and also in the eyes of the servants of Saul.”


text: Heb “them.” The masculine plural pronoun apparently refers to the returning soldiers.


text: Heb “with tambourines, with joy, and with three-stringed instruments.”


text: Heb “said.” So also in vv. 11, 17 .


text: The Hebrew text adds here “with his hand.”


text: Heb “an officer of a thousand.”


text: Heb “and he went out and came in before the people.” See v. 16 .


text: Heb “in all his ways.”


label: NET textual note

text: Much of the ms evidence for the LXX lacks vv. 17-19 .


text: Heb “son of valor.”


text: Heb “Who are my relatives, the clan of my father?” The term חַי ( khay ), traditionally understood as “my life,” is here a rare word meaning “family, kinfolk” (see HALOT 309 s.v. III חַי ). The phrase “clan of my father” may be a scribal gloss explaining the referent of this rare word.


text: Heb “the matter.”


text: The final sentence of v. 21 is absent in most LXX mss .


text: Heb “in the ears of.”


text: Heb “the king’s.”


text: Heb “and it was acceptable in the eyes of David.”


text: Heb “the days were not fulfilled.”


text: Heb “arose and went.”


text: Heb “saw and knew.”


text: Heb “Saul’s.” In the translation the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun for stylistic reasons.


text: Heb “of David.” In the translation the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun for stylistic reasons.


text: The final sentence of v. 29 is absent in most LXX mss . tn Heb “all the days.”


text: Verse 30 is absent in most LXX mss .