with the dead (see Isa 14:9; 26:14, 19) or with a social (or mythological) group (see Gen 15:20; Deut 3:11). For a detailed discussion of this word, see Conrad E. L. Heureux, “The Ugaritic and Biblical Rephaim,” HTR 67 (1974) 265–74; Rank among the Canaanite Gods: El, Baʿal, and Rephaim, HSM 21 (Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1979). 19 David inquired of Yahweh by using, most likely, the lots (see Comment on 2:1) or the ephod (see Gelston, SJT 17 [1964] 329). NEB takes the two separate questions as
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