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2 Samuel 23:13

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23:13At the time of17 the harvest three18 of the thirty leaders went down to19 David at the cave of Adullam. A band of Philistines was camped in the valley of Rephaim.

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Footnotes

  1. 17 The meaning of Hebrew אֶל־קָצִיר (’el qatsir) seems here to be “at the time of harvest,” although this is an unusual use of the phrase. As S. R. Driver points out, this preposition does not normally have the temporal sense of “in” or “during” (S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, ).
  2. 18 The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew in reading שְׁלֹשָׁה (shéloshah, “three”) rather than the Kethib of the שְׁלֹשִׁים (shéloshim, “thirty”). “Thirty” is due to dittography of the following word and makes no sense in the context.
  3. 19 Heb “went down … and approached.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And three of the thirty chief men went down and came about harvest time to David at the cave of Adullam, when a band of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

During harvest time, three of the thirty chief warriors came down to David at the cave of Adullam, while a band of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Three of the thirty leading warriors went down at harvest time and came to David at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was camping in Rephaim Valley.

NLTNew Living Translation

Once during the harvest, when David was at the cave of Adullam, the Philistine army was camped in the valley of Rephaim. The Three (who were among the Thirty—an elite group among David’s fighting men) went down to meet him there.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Then three of the thirty leaders went down and came to David at the time of the harvest to the cave of Adullam, while a group of the Philistines were camping in the valley of the Rephaim.

KJV 1900King James Version

And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.