2 Samuel 8:12-14

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. 2 Samuel 8:12 tn Heb “from.”
2. 2 Samuel 8:12 tc Heb “Aram.” A few Hebrew mss along with the LXX and Syriac read “Edom” (cf. 2 Sam 8:14 and 1 Chr 18:11). Aram and Edom are spelled similarly, the difference being a ד (dalet) vs. a ר (resh). Besides the textual witnesses, the geography in v. 13, the Valley of Salt, fits Edom and not Aram.
3. 2 Samuel 8:12 tn Heb “and from the plunder of.”
4. 2 Samuel 8:13 tn Heb “made a name.”
5. 2 Samuel 8:13 tc See the note on “Aram” in v. 12.
6. 2 Samuel 8:13 tn The words “he defeated” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
7. 2 Samuel 8:14 tc The MT is repetitious here: “He placed in Edom garrisons; in all Edom he placed garrisons.” The Vulgate lacks “in all Edom”; most of the Greek tradition (with the exception of the Lucianic recension and the recension of Origen) and the Syriac Peshitta lack “he placed garrisons.” The MT reading appears here to be the result of a conflation of variant readings.