"... upon you ... the deeps. The Masoretic text seems to mean, 'upon you, nor fields of offerings'. This reading has been taken by those who retain it 'to mean that David lays a curse on the hills of Gilboa that there be no field bearing fine fruits, worthy of being set aside for sacred imposts' (Gordis, 1940), who goes on to say, 'That this is far-fetched and unsatisfactory is obvious ...'). The Septuagint suggests a different reading ... This reading is intelligible in the context, and a case might be made for its originality but the first part of it which corresponds to the Masoretic text is evidently an intrusion from the opening line of the poem, which may have been introduced marginally to correct the reading but found its way into the text at this point. Surely, then it follows that we must reject the rest of the Septuagint reading as well, inasmuch as it makes little sense after ('and the fields of the mountains of death'). We are obliged, it seems, to make sense of this by reinterpretation or emendation ..."