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Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book, authored by Samuel Driver of Brown-Driver-Briggs fame, tackles what is one of the thorniest books of the Old Testament from a text-critical point of view. It is considered by many to be one of the best commentaries on Samuel ever written. Initially published in 1890, it is still regarded as a model of text-critical method—which is noteworthy in light of the rugged condition of the...

20. אשר] stands as the equivalent of כי, after ראה 18:15; after ידע Ex. 11:7. Ez. 20:26 (unusually in Ezek.; see Hitz.). Qoh. 8:12; after השביע 1 Ki. 22:16; and = כי recitativum (2:16), as here, II 1:4 (cf. 2:4). Neh. 4:6 (most probably)1. Cf. GK. § 157c. 22. להקשיב] The inf. cstr. with ל, as the subj., as Is. 10:7b; ψ. 118:8. 9; Qoh. 7:2. 5; Pr. 21:9 טוב לשבת על פנת גג מאשת מדונים ובית חבר (contr. 25:24). 23. מרי] ‘oftenest in Ezek. (2:5 etc. כי בית מרי המה). Is. 30:9 עם מרי הוא. Nu. 17:25
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