LXX Amos 9:13
Septuagint
11 On that day I will raise up the tent of David that has fallen, and I will rebuild its things that have fallen, and I will raise up its things that have been destroyed, and I will rebuild it just as the days of eternity, 12 so that the remnant of the people, and all the Gentiles upon whom my name was invoked upon them, will search for me,” says the Lord who is making these things. 13 “Look, days are coming,” says the Lord, “and the harvest will overtake the harvest, and the grapes will turn dark at seedtime, and the mountains will drip sweetness, and all the hills will be thickly wooded. 14 And I will return the captives of my people Israel, and they will build the cities that are destroyed and inhabit them, and they will plant vineyards and drink their wine, and they will plant gardens and eat their produce.
Date: 1st Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Acts 15:16
New Testament
14 Simeon has explained how God first concerned himself to select from among the Gentiles a people for his name. 15 The words of the prophets agree with this, as it is written, 16 ‘After this I will return, and I will rebuild the fallen tent of David; I will rebuild its ruins and restore it, 17 so that the rest of humanity may seek the Lord, namely, all the Gentiles I have called to be my own,’ says the Lord, who makes these things 18 known from long ago. 19 “Therefore I conclude that we should not cause extra difficulty for those among the Gentiles who are turning to God,
Date: 75-85 C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... Luke’s citation from Amos continues, “so that the rest of humanity might seek the Lord, and all the nations on whom my name has been invoked, says the Lord who is doing these things.” When we consult the LXX, we discover the words “the Lord” are absent. The LXX has simply, “the rest of humanity might seek.” Luke apparently has supplied the proper object of the seeking. What is even more striking, however, is the LXX’s having “that they might seek” at all. In the Masoretic text of Amos 9:12, there is instead this: “that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name, says the Lord who does this” ... It appears that the LXX translators read the Hebrew [of Amos 9:12] before them as yîrsu (from yaras´, “possess”) as yidre˘rshû (from daras, “seek”), and they read ’edom (Edom) as ’adam (humanity). The Masoretic text of Amos envisaged a restored Davidic dynasty in an expansionist mode. The LXX changed it to a restored people that attracts humanity to itself. It is this sense, rooted entirely in the LXX but impossible in the Hebrew, that Luke has James exploit as a text that prefigures the attraction of the Gentiles into the “restored people of God” that is the Christian movement ..."
Johnson, Luke Timothy
Septuagintal Midrash in the Speeches of Acts
(pp. 17-18) Marquette University Press, 2002
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