1 Kings 16 — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: MT 16:29, MT 16:33
Each card keeps the independently rendered source readings above their shared comparison and reception notes. The badge records the source’s governing classification; disparate readings are marked in red. Each reading retains its original reference.
1 Kings 16
Kings rise and fall under the prophetic word
Editorial Christian reading: the rapid succession exposes the instability of power and the persistence of destructive worship.
16:1–7 | Jehu’s word against Baasha
Verse MT 16:1 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:1
YHWH’s word came to Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:1
The Lord’s word came through Jehu son of Hanani to Baasha:
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew presents the word coming to Jehu against Baasha; Greek presents it coming through Jehu to Baasha. This Jehu is the prophet, not the later king of Israel.
Verse MT 16:2 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:2
“Because I raised you from the dust and made you leader over My people Israel, but you walked in Jeroboam’s way and caused My people Israel to sin, provoking Me with their sins,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:2
“Because I raised you from the ground and made you leader over My people Israel, but you walked in Jeroboam’s way and caused My people Israel to sin, provoking Me with their worthless things,
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew dust contrasts with Greek ground, and sins with worthless things. The latter expression is not silently replaced by the name of a specific idol.
Verse MT 16:3 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:3
look, I am sweeping away what remains after Baasha and after his house. I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:3
look, I am rousing up against Baasha and against his house. I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew’s after expression is understood provisionally as what remains of the dynasty. Greek has a rousing verb without an expressed object; no army or named adversary is supplied. Both then address Baasha directly and compare his house with Jeroboam’s.
Verse MT 16:4 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:4
Anyone belonging to Baasha who dies in the city, the dogs will eat; anyone belonging to him who dies in the field, the birds of the heavens will eat.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:4
Anyone belonging to Baasha who dies in the city, the dogs will devour; anyone belonging to him who dies in the plain, the birds of the heavens will devour.”
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: The judgment against the dynasty agrees. Field and plain preserve the slightly different landscape terms; neither text limits the threat to combatants.
Verse MT 16:5 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:5
The rest of Baasha’s acts, what he did, and his might—are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:5
The rest of Baasha’s acts, all he did, and his mighty deeds—look, are these not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel?
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Greek adds all and look and expresses the achievements in the plural. The cited royal record agrees.
Verse MT 16:6 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:6
Baasha slept with his fathers and was buried in Tirzah. Elah his son reigned in his place.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:6
Baasha slept with his fathers and was buried in Tirzah. Elah his son reigned in his place in the twentieth year of King Asa.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek adds an accession synchronism, Asa’s twentieth year. Hebrew gives the twenty-sixth year in verse 8. Both dates are retained at their own locations.
Verse MT 16:7 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:7
Also through the prophet Jehu son of Hanani, YHWH’s word came against Baasha and against his house, because of all the evil he had done in YHWH’s eyes, provoking Him with the work of his hands and becoming like Jeroboam’s house, and because he struck it down.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:7
Through Jehu son of Hanani, the Lord spoke against Baasha and against his house concerning all the evil he had done before the Lord, provoking Him with the works of his hands and becoming like Jeroboam’s house, and because he struck it down.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew expressly calls Jehu the prophet and describes the coming word; Greek describes the Lord speaking. Both end with an ambiguous masculine object, him or it, understood here as Jeroboam’s house. This interpretation does not turn the final clause into God’s killing of Baasha.
16:8–14 | Elah and Zimri
Verse MT 16:8 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:8
In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah son of Baasha became king over Israel in Tirzah, reigning two years.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:8
Elah son of Baasha reigned over Israel two years in Tirzah.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: The two-year reign agrees. Greek lacks the twenty-sixth-year synchronism here and instead gives Asa’s twentieth year in verse 6. No alternative calendar is supplied to reconcile them.
Verse MT 16:9 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:9
His servant Zimri, commander of half the chariot force, conspired against him. He was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:9
Zimri, commander of half the cavalry, conspired against him. He was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Osa, the steward in Tirzah.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek lacks his servant, gives cavalry for the Hebrew chariot force, and names Osa where Hebrew has Arza. Zimri normalizes the securely corresponding Greek Zambri; the steward’s differing name is retained.
Verse MT 16:10 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:10
Zimri came in, struck him, and put him to death in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:10
Zimri came in, struck him, put him to death, and reigned in his place.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Hebrew includes the Asa synchronism. Both preserve the successive striking, killing, and accession without an added account of the victim’s resistance.
Verse MT 16:11 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:11
When he became king, as soon as he sat on his throne, he struck down all Baasha’s house. He left him no male who urinates against a wall, neither his redeeming kinsmen nor his friends.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:11
When he became king, as soon as he sat on his throne, he struck down all Baasha’s house,
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek lacks the expanded no-male, kinsmen, and friends clause. The Hebrew’s bodily expression and go’el kinship term remain visible; neither version is softened into a merely political dismissal.
Verse MT 16:12 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:12
Zimri destroyed all Baasha’s house, according to YHWH’s word which He spoke to Baasha through Jehu the prophet,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:12
according to the word which the Lord spoke against Baasha’s house to Jehu the prophet,
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Hebrew repeats Zimri’s destruction of the house. Greek continues verse 11 directly with the fulfillment clause, and presents Jehu as the recipient of the word against the house.
Verse MT 16:13 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:13
because of all Baasha’s sins and the sins of Elah his son, which they committed and by which they caused Israel to sin, provoking YHWH, the God of Israel, with their worthless things.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:13
concerning all the sins of Baasha and Elah his son, how he caused Israel to sin, provoking the Lord, the God of Israel, with their worthless things.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew explicitly states their own sinning and uses plural they caused; Greek uses singular he caused. Both preserve the communal consequence and the plural their worthless things.
Verse MT 16:14 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:14
The rest of Elah’s acts and all he did—are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:14
The rest of Elah’s acts and all he did—look, are these not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel?
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: The record citation agrees, with Greek’s additional look formula.
16:15–22 | Zimri’s death and the rivalry for the throne
Verse MT 16:15 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:15
In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. The people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:15
Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Israel’s camp was against Gibbethon, which belonged to the foreigners.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek lacks the accession synchronism and expressly identifies the camp as Israel’s. Foreigners renders allophyloi; Hebrew names the Philistines. Both retain the seven-day reign.
Verse MT 16:16 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:16
The encamped people heard it said, “Zimri has conspired and has also struck the king!” All Israel made Omri, the army commander, king over Israel that day in the camp.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:16
The people in the camp heard it said, “Zimri has conspired and struck the king!” They made Omri, the army commander, king in Israel, over Israel, that day in the camp.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew expressly says all Israel made him king; Greek uses an unnamed plural subject with in Israel. The Greek’s repeated Israel designation is retained. Omri normalizes the securely corresponding Greek Ambri.
Verse MT 16:17 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:17
Omri and all Israel with him went up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:17
Omri and all Israel with him went up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The movement, participants, and siege agree.
Verse MT 16:18 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:18
When Zimri saw that the city had been captured, he went into the citadel of the king’s house. He burned the king’s house over himself with fire and died,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:18
When Zimri saw that his city had been taken, he went into a cave of the king’s house. He burned the king’s house over himself with fire and died,
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew names the palace or citadel area; Greek has antron, a cave, and adds his to the city. The burning and death remain attributed to Zimri’s action. The unusual Greek location is not corrected into the Hebrew architecture.
Verse MT 16:19 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:19
because of the sins he committed, doing evil in YHWH’s eyes, walking in Jeroboam’s way and in his sin which he committed, causing Israel to sin.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:19
because of the sins he committed, doing evil before the Lord, walking in the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat and in his sins, as he caused Israel to sin.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek adds son of Nebat and uses plural sins in the Jeroboam comparison. The causal appraisal belongs to the narrator; no further offense during the seven-day reign is invented.
Verse MT 16:20 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:20
The rest of Zimri’s acts and the conspiracy he carried out—are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:20
The rest of Zimri’s acts and the conspiracies he formed—look, are these not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel?
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Greek uses plural connections or combinations, understood as conspiracies in this context; Hebrew has a singular conspiracy. The royal record citation agrees.
Verse MT 16:21 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:21
Then the people of Israel divided in half. Half the people followed Tibni son of Ginath to make him king, and half followed Omri.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:21
Then the people of Israel divided. Half the people followed Thamni son of Gonath to make him king, and half the people followed Omri.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The rival’s forms differ, Tibni/Thamni and Ginath/Gonath. Both preserve the divided support; no separate accession date or length of the rivalry is supplied here.
Verse MT 16:22 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:22
The people following Omri overpowered the people following Tibni son of Ginath. Tibni died, and Omri became king.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:22
The people following Omri overpowered the people following Thamni son of Gonath. Thamni and Joram his brother died at that time, and Omri became king after Thamni.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek adds the brother Joram and his death, at that time, and the explicit succession after Thamni. Neither account specifies how the rival died.
16:23–28 | Omri builds Samaria
Verse MT 16:23 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:23
In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri became king over Israel, reigning twelve years. He reigned six years in Tirzah.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:23
In the thirty-first year of King Asa, Omri became king over Israel, reigning twelve years. He reigned six years in Tirzah.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: The synchronism, total reign, and Tirzah period agree. Hebrew includes of Judah after Asa’s royal title.
Verse MT 16:24 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:24
He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver and built on the hill. He named the city he built Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the hill’s owner.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:24
Omri acquired the hill of Semeron from Shemer, the hill’s owner, for two talents of silver and built on the hill. He named the hill he built on Saemeron, after the name of Shemer, the hill’s owner.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew names the city; Greek names the hill and repeats its owner’s designation. Greek’s Semeron and Saemeron forms are retained alongside its usual Samaria in verse 28. The naming link to Shemer is visible in both; no modern price conversion is supplied.
Verse MT 16:25 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:25
Omri did evil in YHWH’s eyes and acted more wickedly than all who were before him.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:25
Omri did evil before the Lord and acted more wickedly than all who had been before him.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The twofold negative appraisal and comparison with predecessors agree.
Verse MT 16:26 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:26
He walked in all the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat and in his sin by which he caused Israel to sin, provoking YHWH, the God of Israel, with their worthless things.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:26
He walked in all the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat and in his sins by which he caused Israel to sin, provoking the Lord, the God of Israel, with their worthless things.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Hebrew follows the read form, singular his sin, rather than the written plural form; the distinction was checked in the Hebrew display [Q16]. Greek explicitly has plural sins. The idolatry appraisal otherwise agrees.
Verse MT 16:27 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:27
The rest of Omri’s acts which he did and the might he displayed—are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:27
The rest of Omri’s acts, all he did, and his might—look, are these not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel?
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: The royal record and might agree, with small differences in the achievement formula and Greek’s added all and look.
Verse MT 16:28 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:28
Omri slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria. Ahab his son reigned in his place.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:28
Omri slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria. Ahab his son reigned in his place.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The death, burial, and succession agree. The following Greek Jehoshaphat notice is retained at its own source location.
Royal legacies placed beside one another
Editorial reading: the Greek inserts a Jehoshaphat notice before Ahab. Its details are compared with chapter 22 without silently identifying unlike wording.
16:28a–28h | Greek supplement: Jehoshaphat, ships, and succession
Verse 16:28a Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location; compare Jehoshaphat’s reign notice in chapter 22.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:28a
In Omri’s eleventh year, Jehoshaphat son of Asa became king, thirty-five years old at his accession, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Gazouba daughter of Selei.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek places this Judah reign notice before Ahab’s accession. Its Omri synchronism and the maternal names are retained, without being replaced from the later Hebrew notice.
Verse 16:28b Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location; compare chapter 22.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:28b
He walked in the way of Asa his father and did not turn aside from it, doing what was right before the Lord. But they did not remove the high places; they sacrificed and burned incense at the high places.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: The Greek’s plural they in the qualification is retained. Its favorable appraisal does not erase the continuing high-place worship.
Verse 16:28c Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location; compare chapter 22.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:28c
The agreements Jehoshaphat made, all the might he displayed, and those against whom he fought—look, are these not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah?
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek expressly names what he agreed and those whom he fought. These expressions are not silently replaced by a standard rest-of-the-acts formula or by how he fought.
Verse 16:28d Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location; compare chapter 22.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:28d
He removed from the land the remaining unions which they had undertaken in the days of Asa his father.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Unions renders symplokai provisionally: entanglements or combinations, with a possible sexual sense in this reform context. The Greek names activities or connections, not explicitly a class of cult personnel. No specific rite is invented.
Verse 16:28e Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location; compare chapter 22.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:28e
There was no king in Syria—nasib.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: The Greek is elliptical and ends with the untranslated loanword nasib, associated with a deputy or governor. Its grammatical relation is uncertain; the line remains provisional. Syria is not changed to Edom, and only a governor is not inserted as though expressly stated.
Verse 16:28f Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location; compare chapter 22.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:28f
King Jehoshaphat made a ship for Tarshish to go to Sophir for gold. It did not go, because the ship was wrecked at Ezion-geber.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek has a singular ship, for Tarshish, and Sophir. The destination wording is retained without an invented itinerary or a claim that the vessel reached the open sea.
Verse 16:28g Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location; compare chapter 22.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:28g
Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will send your attendants and my young men in the ship.” But Jehoshaphat was unwilling.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek leaves Israel’s king unnamed and distinguishes your attendants from my young men. The possessives and refusal are preserved without importing a royal name from the Hebrew parallel.
Verse 16:28h Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location; compare chapter 22.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:28h
Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the City of David. Joram his son reigned in his place.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: The Greek reign summary closes here before returning to Ahab. The source’s literary order is preserved rather than relocating this verse to chapter 22.
16:29–34 | Ahab, Jezebel, Baal, and the rebuilding of Jericho
Verse MT 16:29 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:29
Ahab son of Omri became king over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah. Ahab son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:29
In Jehoshaphat’s second year, Ahab son of Omri became king. He reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.
Classification & Notes
Disparate
Text: The synchronisms differ substantially: Asa’s thirty-eighth year and Jehoshaphat’s second. The twenty-two-year reign agrees. No co-regency or chronological reconstruction is inserted to make the dates agree.
Verse MT 16:30 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:30
Ahab son of Omri did evil in YHWH’s eyes, more than all who were before him.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:30
Ahab did evil before the Lord; he acted more wickedly than all who were before him.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Greek expresses the comparison with a second verb and lacks son of Omri here. The especially negative royal appraisal agrees.
Verse MT 16:31 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:31
As though it were a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he took as wife Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and bowed down to him.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:31
It was not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat: he took as wife Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and bowed down to him.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: The Hebrew light-thing idiom and Greek not-enough clause convey the escalating offense. The marriage, service, and worship agree. Ethbaal normalizes the corresponding Greek Iethebaal.
Verse MT 16:32 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:32
He set up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal which he had built in Samaria.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:32
He set up an altar for Baal in the house of his offenses which he had built in Samaria,
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew names Baal’s house; Greek calls it the house of his offenses. The Greek’s evaluative wording is retained rather than replaced with the Hebrew proper-name expression.
Verse MT 16:33 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:33
Ahab made the Asherah. Ahab did still more to provoke YHWH, the God of Israel, than all the kings of Israel who had been before him.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:33
and Ahab made a grove. Ahab went on committing provocations, to provoke his soul to destruction; he did evil more than all the kings of Israel who had been before him.
Classification & Notes
Disparate
Text: Hebrew expressly names YHWH as the One provoked; Greek has the difficult his soul and an infinitive of destruction, without that divine title. The Greek syntax and pronoun reference remain provisional, rather than silently restoring Lord. Asherah and grove also remain distinct.
Verse MT 16:34 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 16:34
In his days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho. At the cost of Abiram his firstborn he laid its foundation, and at the cost of Segub his youngest he set up its gates, according to YHWH’s word which He spoke through Joshua son of Nun.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 16:34
In his days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho. At the cost of Abiram his firstborn he laid its foundation, and at the cost of Segub his younger son he set up its gates, according to the Lord’s word which He spoke through Joshua son of Nun.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: At the cost of interprets the compact with/in construction in light of Joshua 6:26; neither verse specifies a mechanism of death or establishes foundation sacrifice. Hebrew Segub follows the read form rather than written Segib [Q16]. Hiel and Abiram normalize their securely corresponding Greek forms; younger preserves Greek neoteros.