1 Kings 2 — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: MT 2:3
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 2
A throne accountable to the word of God
Editorial Christian reading: the charge to obey and the deaths that follow require moral attention, not an assumption that every royal act foreshadows Christ.
2:1–12 | David’s charge, death, and succession
Verse MT 2:1 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:1
When David’s days drew near for him to die, he commanded his son Solomon, saying,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:1
When David’s days drew near for him to die, he commanded his son Solomon, saying,
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both introduce David’s approaching death and his commands to his son.
Verse MT 2:2 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:2
“I am going the way of all the earth. Be strong, and be a man.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:2
“I myself am going the way of all the earth. Be strong, and be a man,
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Greek’s explicit I am construction reinforces the speaker. Both retain the shared mortality image and the charge to strength and maturity.
Verse MT 2:3 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:3
Keep the charge of YHWH your God: walk in His ways, keeping His statutes, commandments, judgments, and testimonies, as written in Moses’ law, so that you may act wisely in all you do and wherever you turn,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:3
and keep the charge of the Lord your God: walk in His ways, keeping His commandments, statutes, and judgments written in Moses’ law, so that you may understand what you will do in everything that I command you,
Classification & Notes
Disparate
Text: Hebrew includes testimonies and extends wise action to every undertaking and direction. Greek lacks testimonies and makes David’s commands the final scope of understanding. That change materially reshapes the charge’s conclusion without eliminating the law of Moses.
Verse MT 2:4 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:4
so that YHWH may establish His word which He spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your sons guard their way, walking before Me in truth with all their heart and all their soul,’ saying, ‘You shall not lack a man on Israel’s throne.’
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:4
so that the Lord may establish His word which He spoke, saying, ‘If your sons guard their way, walking before Me in truth with all their heart and all their soul,’ saying, ‘A man shall not be cut off for you from Israel’s throne.’
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew specifies concerning me. Both source verbs evoke removal or cutting off; the Hebrew assurance is rendered idiomatically as not lacking a successor. Both retain the conditional fidelity clause and the repeated saying rather than recasting the promise as unconditional.
Verse MT 2:5 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:5
You also know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me, what he did to the two commanders of Israel’s armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. He killed them, bringing the blood of war into peace, and put the blood of war on the belt around his waist and the sandal on his feet.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:5
You also know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me, what he did to the two commanders of Israel’s forces, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. He killed them, setting the blood of war in peace, and put innocent blood on the belt around his waist and the sandal on his foot.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew repeats blood of war and has plural feet; Greek changes the second blood expression to innocent blood and has singular foot. Both retain David’s accusation and its concrete clothing images.
Verse MT 2:6 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:6
Act according to your wisdom, and do not bring his gray hair down to Sheol in peace.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:6
Act according to your wisdom, and do not bring his gray hair down to Hades in peace.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Both give the same punitive instruction and gray-hair image. Sheol and Hades retain their source-specific names for the realm of the dead, without importing later geographical descriptions.
Verse MT 2:7 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:7
But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, for they came near to me in this way when I fled from your brother Absalom.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:7
Show mercy to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, for they came near to me in this way when I fled from your brother Absalom.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Hebrew kindness and Greek mercy describe the requested benefaction. Eat at your table gives the shared idiom’s contextual sense; the family’s approach during David’s flight remains explicit.
Verse MT 2:8 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:8
Look, with you is Shimei son of Gera, a Benjaminite from Bahurim. He cursed me with a grievous curse on the day I went to Mahanaim. He came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by YHWH, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:8
Look, with you is Shimei son of Gera, a son of the Benjaminite from Bahurim. He cursed me with a painful curse on the day I went to Camps. He came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by the Lord, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek expresses Benjaminite affiliation as a son of the Benjaminite; the same Shimei son of Gera appears with this affiliation in Greek 2 Reigns 16:11 and 19:17. Greek renders the destination as Camps, where Hebrew names Mahanaim. Both oaths use an elliptical if-I-kill construction with negative force. The oath’s wording is not softened to reconcile the next instruction.
Verse MT 2:9 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:9
Now do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man. You will know what to do to him, and you shall bring his gray hair down to Sheol with blood.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:9
You must certainly not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man. You will know what to do to him, and you shall bring his gray hair down to Hades with blood.”
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Greek strengthens the prohibition. Both retain the commanded bloody outcome beside the previous oath.
Rabbinic: Rashi interprets the appeal to wisdom as finding a separate capital offense [R2]; that explanation is not inserted into David’s words.
Verse MT 2:10 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:10
David lay down with his fathers and was buried in the City of David.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:10
David lay down with his fathers and was buried in the City of David.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both use the ancestral sleep idiom and name the burial place.
Verse MT 2:11 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:11
David’s reign over Israel lasted forty years. He reigned seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:11
David’s reign over Israel lasted forty years. He reigned seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The total and both components agree. No additional months are imported from a parallel account.
Verse MT 2:12 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:12
Solomon sat on the throne of his father David, and his kingdom was firmly established.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:12
Solomon sat on the throne of his father David when he was twelve years old, and his kingdom was firmly prepared.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek explicitly gives Solomon’s age as twelve; Hebrew gives no age here. The added age is retained without harmonization to later chronological calculations.
2:13–25 | Adonijah’s request and death
Verse MT 2:13 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:13
Adonijah son of Haggith came to Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother. She said, “Is your coming peaceful?” He said, “Peaceful.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:13
Adonijah son of Haggith came to Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother, and prostrated himself before her. She said, “Is your coming peaceful?” He said, “Peaceful.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek adds Adonijah’s obeisance. His reply continues directly into verse 14 in Greek; the Hebrew introduces a fresh speaking clause there.
Verse MT 2:14 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:14
He said, “I have a word for you.” She said, “Speak.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:14
I have a word for you.” She said to him, “Speak.”
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: The same exchange crosses the verse boundary differently. Read the Greek continuously with verse 13; no new speaker is introduced.
Verse MT 2:15 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:15
He said, “You know that the kingdom was mine, and all Israel set their faces toward me to reign. But the kingdom turned and became my brother’s, for it became his from YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:15
He said to her, “You know that the kingdom was mine, and all Israel set its face toward me to reign. But the kingdom turned and became my brother’s, for it became his from the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Hebrew has plural faces and Greek a collective singular face. Adonijah’s claim and acknowledgment of divine disposition remain his speech, not an independent endorsement of his earlier entitlement.
Verse MT 2:16 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:16
Now I ask one request of you; do not turn away my face.” She said to him, “Speak.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:16
Now I ask one request of you; do not turn away your face.” Bathsheba said to him, “Speak.”
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew asks that his face not be turned away; Greek asks that she not turn her own face. Both are refusal idioms, but their personal reference remains distinct. Greek also names Bathsheba.
Verse MT 2:17 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:17
He said, “Please speak to King Solomon—for he will not turn away your face—and have him give me Abishag the Shunammite as a wife.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:17
He said to her, “Please speak to King Solomon—for he will not turn his face away from you—and he will give me Abishag the Shunammite as a wife.”
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The face idiom again differs in possession and direction. Both retain the marriage request; no speech or consent is invented for Abishag.
Verse MT 2:18 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:18
Bathsheba said, “Good. I will speak to the king on your behalf.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:18
Bathsheba said, “Very well. I will speak to the king about you.”
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: The acceptance and planned intervention agree; the prepositions allow the contextual behalf-of and about renderings.
Verse MT 2:19 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:19
Bathsheba came to King Solomon to speak to him about Adonijah. The king rose to meet her and bowed before her, then sat on his throne. He placed a throne for the king’s mother, and she sat at his right.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:19
Bathsheba came to King Solomon to speak to him about Adonijah. The king rose to meet her and kissed her, then sat on his throne. A throne was placed for the king’s mother, and she sat at his right.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew describes a bow; Greek a kiss. Hebrew attributes placing the throne to the king, while Greek uses a passive. Both retain throne for each seat and the mother’s position at the right.
Verse MT 2:20 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:20
She said, “I ask one small request of you; do not turn away my face.” The king said to her, “Ask, my mother, for I will not turn away your face.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:20
She said to him, “I ask one small request of you; do not turn away your face.” The king said to her, “Ask, my mother, for I will not turn you away.”
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew repeats turning away the petitioner’s face. Greek first describes the king’s own face, then directly describes refusing her. The request remains small in Bathsheba’s characterization.
Verse MT 2:21 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:21
She said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to your brother Adonijah as a wife.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:21
She said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to your brother Adonijah as a wife.”
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The woman, prospective husband, kinship, and marriage request agree.
Verse MT 2:22 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:22
King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you ask for Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for the kingdom for him too, for he is my elder brother—for him, Abiathar the priest, and Joab son of Zeruiah!”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:22
King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you ask for Abishag for Adonijah? Ask for the kingdom for him too, for he is my elder brother! Abiathar the priest is his, and Joab son of Zeruiah, the commander-in-chief, is his companion!”
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Hebrew ends with an elliptical series of for-phrases; Greek explicitly describes Joab’s office and companionship. The political implication is Solomon’s argument.
Rabbinic: Rashi interprets access to royal prerogatives as the beginning of authority [R2].
Verse MT 2:23 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:23
King Solomon swore by YHWH, “May God do thus to me and add more, for Adonijah has spoken this word at the cost of his life!
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:23
King Solomon swore by the Lord, “May God do thus to me and add more, for Adonijah has spoken this word against his own life!
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Both preserve the king’s self-imprecatory oath and the declared mortal consequence of Adonijah’s request. Greek explicitly says against his life.
Verse MT 2:24 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:24
Now, as YHWH lives, who established me and seated me on the throne of my father David, and made a house for me as He spoke, Adonijah shall be put to death today.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:24
Now, as the Lord lives, who prepared me and placed me on the throne of my father David—He made a house for me, as the Lord spoke—Adonijah shall be put to death today.”
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek repeats the Lord and emphatically names Him as house-maker; Hebrew uses a relative clause. The throne and execution date agree.
Rabbinic: Rashi understands house as the royal house promised through Nathan [R2].
Verse MT 2:25 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:25
King Solomon sent through Benaiah son of Jehoiada; Benaiah struck Adonijah, and he died.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:25
King Solomon sent through Benaiah son of Jehoiada and had Adonijah killed. Adonijah died that day.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek expressly adds that day and names Adonijah; Hebrew’s pronouns are supplied contextually for clarity. Greek’s singular action remains under the king’s commissioning, without inventing a personal execution by Solomon.
2:26–35 | Abiathar removed; Joab killed at the altar
Verse MT 2:26 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:26
The king said to Abiathar the priest, “Go to Anathoth, to your fields. You are a man deserving death, but I will not put you to death today, because you carried the ark of the Lord YHWH before my father David and shared all my father’s afflictions.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:26
The king said to Abiathar the priest, “Go quickly to Anathoth, to your field. You are a man deserving death today, but I will not put you to death, because you carried the ark of the Lord’s covenant before my father and suffered all the hardships my father suffered.”
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek has singular field, places today with the death liability, and explicitly names the covenant. Hebrew names David and the compound divine title. Both attribute the reprieve and its reasons to Solomon.
Verse MT 2:27 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:27
Solomon expelled Abiathar from being priest to YHWH, fulfilling YHWH’s word which He had spoken concerning Eli’s house at Shiloh.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:27
Solomon expelled Abiathar from being priest to the Lord, fulfilling the Lord’s word which He had spoken concerning Eli’s house at Shiloh.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both connect the removal with the earlier word concerning Eli’s house. Expelled concerns his priestly office in this clause, not a newly supplied geographical exile.
Verse MT 2:28 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:28
The report reached Joab, for Joab had followed Adonijah but had not followed Absalom. Joab fled to YHWH’s tent and grasped the horns of the altar.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:28
The report reached Joab son of Zeruiah, for Joab had followed Adonijah but had not followed Solomon. Joab fled to the Lord’s dwelling and held fast to the horns of the altar.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew names Absalom as the one Joab did not follow; Greek names Solomon and adds Joab’s parentage. The contrast concerns different allegiances and is not harmonized by changing either name.
Verse MT 2:29 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:29
King Solomon was told that Joab had fled to YHWH’s tent and was beside the altar. Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, strike him.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:29
Solomon was told, “Joab has fled to the Lord’s tent and is holding fast to the altar’s horns.” Solomon sent to Joab, asking, “What has happened to you, that you have fled to the altar?” Joab said, “I was afraid of you, and I fled to the Lord.” King Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, kill him and bury him.”
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek adds the exchange between Solomon and Joab, specifies grasping the horns, and includes burial in the initial order. Its final command continues across a publisher paragraph boundary within this verse.
Verse MT 2:30 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:30
Benaiah came to YHWH’s tent and said to him, “Thus says the king: Come out.” He said, “No, I will die here.” Benaiah brought word back to the king: “This is what Joab said, and this is how he answered me.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:30
Benaiah son of Jehoiada came to Joab in the Lord’s tent and said to him, “Thus says the king: Come out.” Joab said, “I am not coming out, for I will die here.” Benaiah son of Jehoiada returned and said to the king, “This is what Joab has said, and this is how he has answered me.”
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek repeatedly specifies Benaiah’s parentage and Joab’s identity, and makes the refusal a full clause. Both retain the refusal to leave and the messenger’s report.
Verse MT 2:31 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:31
The king said to him, “Do as he has said. Strike him and bury him, and remove from me and my father’s house the blood Joab shed without cause.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:31
The king said to him, “Go and do to him as he has said. Kill him and bury him, and today remove from me and my father’s house the blood Joab shed without cause.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek adds go and today to the execution instruction. Both preserve Solomon’s claim that this action removes blood liability from his house, without replacing the claim with an editorial judgment.
Verse MT 2:32 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:32
YHWH will return his blood upon his own head, because he struck two men more righteous and better than himself and killed them with the sword, without my father David’s knowledge: Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:32
The Lord returned the blood of his injustice upon his own head, because he struck two men more righteous and better than himself and killed them with the sword, while my father David did not know of their blood: Abner son of Ner, commander-in-chief of Israel, and Amasa son of Jether, commander-in-chief of Judah.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew presents returning blood prospectively; Greek presents it as accomplished and explicitly calls it blood of injustice. Greek also supplies their blood as the object of David’s not knowing. Both retain the victims’ names and offices.
Verse MT 2:33 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:33
Their blood shall return upon Joab’s head and the head of his offspring forever. But for David, his offspring, his house, and his throne there shall be peace from YHWH forever.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:33
Their blood was returned upon his head and the head of his offspring forever. But for David, his offspring, his house, and his throne may there be peace from the Lord forever.”
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew has future retribution and a future assurance of peace; Greek has accomplished retribution and a wish for peace. Both retain the extension to offspring and the repeated forever.
Verse MT 2:34 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:34
Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up, struck Joab, and put him to death. Joab was buried at his house in the wilderness.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:34
Benaiah son of Jehoiada came upon Joab, put him to death, and buried him at his house in the wilderness.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew uses a passive for burial; Greek makes Benaiah the continuing agent. The house’s possessive remains attached to the burial context without supplying an otherwise unidentified location.
Verse MT 2:35 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:35
The king put Benaiah son of Jehoiada over the army in Joab’s place, and appointed Zadok the priest in Abiathar’s place.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:35
The king put Benaiah son of Jehoiada in the military command in Joab’s place. The kingdom was being established in Jerusalem, and the king appointed Zadok the priest as first priest in Abiathar’s place.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek adds the kingdom’s establishment in Jerusalem and explicitly calls Zadok first priest. Hebrew lists the two replacements without those details.
Wisdom and the limits of royal security
Editorial reading: Greek supplementary notices anticipate later material. They remain visibly distinct from the Hebrew sequence.
2:35a–35o | Greek supplement: wisdom, building, and provision
Greek-only units 2:35a–o, as numbered by the publisher; there is no unit 35j.
Verse 2:35a Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:35a
The Lord gave Solomon discernment, exceedingly great wisdom, and breadth of heart like the sand beside the sea.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: This begins the first additional Greek collection of royal notices. Its location is preserved; related material elsewhere in the book is not silently moved into the Hebrew cell.
Verse 2:35b Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:35b
Solomon’s discernment greatly surpassed the discernment of all the sons of old and all the discerning men of Egypt.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek continues the wisdom notice. Sons of old retains its ancient-ones expression without changing it to a geographical east on the basis of a later parallel.
Verse 2:35c Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:35c
He took Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her into the City of David until he had first finished his own house, the Lord’s house, and Jerusalem’s surrounding wall. He built and completed them in seven years.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek places the marriage and construction notice here and gives seven years. The combined notice is retained without assigning separate building periods from later chapters.
Verse 2:35d Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:35d
Solomon had seventy thousand burden-bearers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hill country.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: The additional Greek notice preserves both labor groups and their numbers. No modern labor arrangement or payment is inferred.
Verse 2:35e Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:35e
Solomon made the sea, the supports, the great washbasins, the pillars, the courtyard’s fountain, and the bronze sea.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: The Greek list names the sea at both beginning and end and includes the courtyard’s fountain. Its repetition is retained rather than deleted as presumed redundancy.
Verse 2:35f Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:35f
He built the citadel and its battlements and cut through the City of David. Thus Pharaoh’s daughter would go up from the City of David to her house, which he built for her. Then he built the citadel.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek repeats the citadel’s construction and uses a difficult cutting-through-city expression. The wording remains provisional; no route or demolition plan is reconstructed.
Verse 2:35g Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:35g
Solomon offered three whole burnt offerings and peace offerings in the year on the altar he built for the Lord, and burned incense before the Lord. He completed the house.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek explicitly has the numeral three with the offerings. This is not silently changed to three festivals or an exact ritual calendar. The notice remains distinct from fuller later descriptions.
Verse 2:35h Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:35h
These were the officials appointed over Solomon’s works: three thousand six hundred overseers of the people doing the works.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek gives three thousand six hundred overseers here. The count and their supervisory relation to the workforce are retained.
Verse 2:35i Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:35i
He built Assour, Megiddo, Gezer, Upper Beth-horon, and Baalath.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Assour remains the checked Greek form; the securely corresponding other cities use familiar English forms. No substitute city is supplied to repair the list.
Verse 2:35k Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:35k
Only after he had built the Lord’s house and Jerusalem’s surrounding wall—after these things—did he build these cities.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: The Greek notice repeats after and explicitly orders the city-building after the temple and wall. The source labels pass from 35i to 35k; no missing 35j is invented.
Verse 2:35l Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:35l
While David was still alive, he commanded Solomon: “Look, with you is Shimei son of Gera, a descendant of the Benjaminite, from Hebron.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: This retrospective Greek instruction repeats material from 2:8–9 in a different form. Descendant of the Benjaminite renders its son-of-seed wording (huios spermatos tou Iemini). It names Hebron here rather than the earlier Bahurim; both Greek notices remain visible.
Verse 2:35m Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:35m
He cursed me with a painful curse on the day I was going to Camps.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: The repeated Greek instruction retains the curse and the Camps destination. Read continuously with 35l–35o.
Verse 2:35n Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:35n
He was coming down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by the Lord, ‘He shall not be put to death with the sword.’
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: The Greek retrospective uses a third-person passive oath, unlike the first-person pledge in 2:8. Its elliptical if-he-dies formula is rendered with its negative oath force.
Verse 2:35o Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:35o
Now do not hold him guiltless, for you are a discerning man. You will know what to do to him, and you shall bring his gray hair down to Hades with blood.”
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: The additional Greek command retains the bloody outcome alongside the preceding pledge. It is not replaced by a paraphrase of David’s supposed intention.
2:36–46 | Shimei’s restriction, departure, and death
Verse MT 2:36 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:36
The king sent for Shimei and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and stay there. Do not go out from there anywhere.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:36
The king summoned Shimei and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and stay there. You shall not go out from there anywhere.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: The confinement order and its geographical center agree. Hebrew explicitly describes sending for Shimei; Greek summarizes the summons.
Verse MT 2:37 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:37
On the day you go out and cross the Wadi Kidron, know for certain that you shall surely die. Your blood shall be upon your own head.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:37
On the day you go out and cross the Wadi Kidron, know for certain that you shall surely die. Your blood shall be upon your own head.” The king made him swear that day.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek adds an actual oath-taking notice at the end. Both retain the named watercourse and emphatic death warning.
Verse MT 2:38 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:38
Shimei said to the king, “The word is good. Your servant will do as my lord the king has spoken.” Shimei stayed in Jerusalem many days.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:38
Shimei said to the king, “The word you have spoken is good, my lord the king. Your servant will do so.” Shimei stayed in Jerusalem three years.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew says many days; Greek specifies three years. Both record Shimei’s assent without inserting the later violation into this statement.
Verse MT 2:39 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:39
After three years, two of Shimei’s slaves fled to Achish son of Maacah, king of Gath. Shimei was told, “Look, your slaves are in Gath.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:39
After three years, two of Shimei’s slaves fled to Achish son of Maacah, king of Gath. Shimei was told, “Look, your slaves are in Gath.”
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both name two escaped slaves and the same refuge and ruler. Slave is used here for the people pursued and recovered, not generalized to every courtly servant expression.
Verse MT 2:40 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:40
Shimei rose, saddled his donkey, and went to Achish at Gath to seek his slaves. Shimei went and brought his slaves back from Gath.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:40
Shimei rose, saddled his donkey, and went to Achish at Gath to seek out his slaves. Shimei went and brought his slaves back from Gath.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The repeated journey and return with the slaves agree. Neither column supplies a report of their treatment after recovery.
Verse MT 2:41 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:41
Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and returned.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:41
Solomon was told, “Shimei went from Jerusalem to Gath and brought back his slaves.”
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek explicitly makes the slaves the object of the return action; Hebrew reports Shimei’s own return. The itinerary agrees.
Verse MT 2:42 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:42
The king sent for Shimei and said to him, “Did I not make you swear by YHWH and warn you, ‘On the day you go out anywhere, know for certain that you shall surely die’? And you said to me, ‘The word is good; I have heard it.’
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:42
The king sent for Shimei and said to him, “Did I not make you swear by the Lord and solemnly warn you, ‘On the day you leave Jerusalem and go to the right or left, know for certain that you shall surely die’?
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek specifies leaving Jerusalem and going right or left, but lacks the quotation of Shimei’s assent. The oath already appeared explicitly in Greek verse 37; its earlier absence in Hebrew is not repaired.
Verse MT 2:43 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:43
Why have you not kept YHWH’s oath and the command I laid upon you?”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:43
Why have you not kept the Lord’s oath and the command I laid upon you?”
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both frame the accusation as failure to keep an oath and a royal command.
Verse MT 2:44 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:44
The king said to Shimei, “You know all the evil your heart knows that you did to my father David. YHWH will return your evil upon your head.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:44
The king said to Shimei, “You know all your wickedness which your heart knew, the things you did to my father David. The Lord has repaid your wickedness upon your head.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew presents the retribution prospectively; Greek as accomplished repayment. Both retain the appeal to Shimei’s knowledge and the head-as-recipient image.
Verse MT 2:45 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:45
But King Solomon is blessed, and David’s throne shall be established before YHWH forever.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:45
But King Solomon is blessed, and David’s throne shall be prepared before the Lord forever.”
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: The Hebrew participial blessing can be read as a present state or anticipated result; Greek similarly predicates blessing. Both retain the explicit future establishment of David’s throne.
Verse MT 2:46 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:46
The king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada. He went out, struck Shimei, and Shimei died. The kingdom was established in Solomon’s hand.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:46
King Solomon commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada. He went out and killed Shimei, and Shimei died.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek lacks Hebrew’s closing establishment notice at this point and proceeds to another collection of royal notices. Shimei’s name supplies the continuing object for clarity in both columns.
2:46a–46l | Greek supplement: prosperity and royal administration
Greek-only units 2:46a–l; the publisher has no 46j.
Verse 2:46a Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:46a
King Solomon was exceedingly discerning and wise. Judah and Israel were exceedingly numerous, like the sand beside the sea in multitude, eating, drinking, and rejoicing.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: This begins the second additional Greek collection. Its praise and population image remain in their source location; related notices elsewhere are not silently duplicated in the Hebrew column.
Verse 2:46b Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:46b
Solomon ruled among all the kingdoms. They brought gifts and served Solomon all the days of his life.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek describes tribute and royal service throughout his life. The kingdoms’ service is not rendered as religious worship.
Verse 2:46c Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:46c
Solomon began to open up the resources of Lebanon,
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek dynasteumata is rendered resources, supported by the LSJ entry citing this passage [D1]. The notice does not specify which resources or how they were opened up.
Verse 2:46d Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:46d
and he built Thermai in the wilderness.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Thermai is the checked Greek place-name. It is not replaced by a city from a later Hebrew building list.
Verse 2:46e Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:46e
This was Solomon’s midday meal: thirty kors of fine flour, sixty kors of pounded meal, ten choice calves, twenty pasture-fed cattle, and one hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, and choice pasture-fed birds.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek specifies a midday meal and retains ancient kors. The final birds are described by the same grazing or pasture term used for the cattle; no modern weight or named bird species is supplied.
Verse 2:46f Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:46f
For he ruled throughout the region beyond the River, from Raphi to Gaza, among all the kings beyond the River.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek retains Raphi as the boundary name and repeats beyond the River. The River is not replaced by a modern border line.
Verse 2:46g Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:46g
He had peace on every side around him. Judah and Israel lived securely, each beneath his vine and beneath his fig tree, eating and drinking, from Dan to Beersheba, all Solomon’s days.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: The additional Greek notice preserves both the household images and the full territorial span. The description remains a royal-era narrative statement before any later Christian application.
Verse 2:46h Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:46h
These were Solomon’s officials: Azariah son of Zadok the priest; Ornia son of Nathan, chief of the supervisors; Edram over his house; Souba the scribe; Basa son of Achithalam, the recorder; Abi son of Joab, commander-in-chief; Achire son of Edrai over the burdens; Benaiah son of Jehoiada over the court administration and the brickworks; and Zachour son of Nathan, the counselor.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: The Greek list’s names and offices remain distinct from other official lists. Court administration, burdens, and brickworks are provisional contextual renderings. Azariah and Ornia normalize securely corresponding inflected Greek forms; other differing names are not replaced to make the lists agree.
Verse 2:46i Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:46i
Solomon had forty thousand broodmares for chariots and twelve thousand horsemen.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek expressly identifies breeding female horses. Forty thousand is retained without reduction to another passage’s count or replacement by stalls.
Verse 2:46k Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:46k
He ruled among all the kings from the River to the land of foreigners and to Egypt’s borders.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek preserves its foreigners designation and territorial limits. The source passes from 46i to 46k; no 46j is supplied.
Verse 2:46l Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
No MT counterpart
[No Hebrew counterpart at this location.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:46l
Solomon son of David reigned over Israel and Judah in Jerusalem.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: The Greek collection ends with this reign notice, explicitly naming Israel, Judah, and Jerusalem. It is retained as a separate source unit.