tn In v. 2 he is called simply a “man.” The word used here in v. 5 (so also in vv. 6, 13, 15), though usually referring to a young man or servant, may in this context designate a “fighting” man, i.e., a soldier.

tc Instead of the MT “who was recounting this to him, ‘How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?’ ” the Syriac Peshitta reads “declare to me how Saul and his son Jonathan died.”