15:31 Now David49 had been told, “Ahithophel has sided with the conspirators who are with Absalom. So David prayed,50 “Make the advice of Ahithophel foolish, O Lord!”
tc The translation follows 4QSama, part of the Greek tradition, the SyriacPeshitta, Targum, and Vulgateuldavid in reading “and to David,” rather than MTוְדָוִד (védavid, “and David”). As Driver points out, the Hebrew verb הִגִּיד (higgid, “he related”) never uses the accusative for the person to whom something is told (S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 316).
