1 Samuel 15:2
Hebrew Bible
1 Then Samuel said to Saul, “I was the one the Lord sent to anoint you as king over his people Israel. Now listen to what the Lord says. 2 Here is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has said: ‘I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed Israel along the way when Israel came up from Egypt. 3 So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything they have. Don’t spare them. Put them to death—man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.’”
Date: 6th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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LXX 1 Samuel 15:2
Septuagint
1 And Samuel said to Saul, “The Lord sent me to anoint you to be king over Israel. So now listen to the voice of the Lord. 2 This is what the Lord Sabaoth says: ‘Now I will avenge what the Amalekites did to Israel when they encountered them on the way of their coming up from Egypt. 3 And now go, and you will strike down Amalek and Jerim and all that is his, and none should be allowed to live from him. You must completely destroy him, and you will commit him to destruction and all that is his, and you must not spare anything from him. You will kill everything, from men even to women, and from the young child to the suckling baby, and from the calf to the cattle, and from the camel to the donkey.’ ”
Date: 1st Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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"... In other cases, the Masoretic text and Targum tempered difficulties in the text, which textually survived only in the Septuagint. In 1 Samuel 15:2, the Septuagint offers ἐκδικήσω (“I will avenge”) whereas the Masoretic text offers “I have taken account”, and Targum Jonathan offers “I remember”. In this case, the Septuagint offers an old reading which is tempered in the Hebrew traditions. In 2 Samuel 24:16, LXX Ra offers the original reading ὁ ἄγγελος τοῦ θεοῦ whereas the Masoretic Text, LXX A.L. and the Targum omit the mention of “God” in order to reduce the notion of God’s cruelty. In Rabbinical tradition, this reading also is known, but there we find an explicit debate on God’s cruelty ..."
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