2 Samuel 24:16
Hebrew Bible
15 So the Lord sent a plague through Israel from the morning until the completion of the appointed time, and 70,000 people died from Dan to Beer Sheba. 16 When the angel extended his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the Lord relented from his judgment. He told the angel who was killing the people, “That’s enough! Stop now!” (Now the angel of the Lord was near the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.) 17 When he saw the angel who was destroying the people, David said to the Lord, “Look, it is I who have sinned and done this evil thing! As for these sheep—what have they done? Attack me and my family.”
Date: 6th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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LXX 2 Samuel 24:17
Septuagint
16 And the angel of God reached his hand into Jerusalem to destroy it and the Lord relented from the wickedness and said to the angel who was destroying, “Among the people it is enough now. Release your hand.” And the angel of the Lord was before the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. 17 And David spoke to Lord, when he saw the angel beating down the people, and said, “Look, it is I! I have done wrong and these, they are the sheep! What have they done? Let your hand now be against me and against my father’s house.” 18 And Gad came to David in that day and said to him, “Go up and build for the Lord an altar on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
Date: 1st Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... 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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