translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “walk in” (also in v. 5 ).


text: Heb “and they turned aside after unjust gain and took bribes and perverted justice.”


text: Heb “judge” (also in v. 6 ).


text: Heb “when.”


text: Heb “Listen to the voice of the people, to all which they say to you.”


text: Heb “according to all the deeds which they have done.”


text: Heb “and now, listen to their voice.”


text: The infinitive absolute appears before the imperative for emphasis.


text: Heb “and tell them the manner of the king who will rule over them.”


label: NET textual note

text: The numbers of v. 12 are confused in the Greek and Syriac versions. For “fifties” the LXX has “hundreds.” The Syriac Peshitta has “heads of thousands and heads of hundreds and heads of fifties and heads of tens,” perhaps reflecting influence from Deut 1:15 .


text: Or “eunuchs” (so NAB); NIV “officials”; KJV, NASB, NRSV, NLT “officers.”


text: The LXX adds “because you have chosen for yourselves a king.”


text: Heb “and the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel.”


text: Heb “and go out before us.”


text: Heb “and Samuel heard all the words of the people and he spoke them into the ears of the Lord .”


text: Heb “listen to their voice.”