2 Kings — Hebrew and Greek compared
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Source guide and review record
Saints Translation — 2 Kings
Chapters 1–25 • V1 • Working translation draft • Sep 8, 2026
Reader’s guide
Complete editorial working draft of 2 Kings 1–25, independently drafted in English from the directly read Hebrew BHS and Greek Rahlfs–Hanhart publisher running texts. All 719 Hebrew verses and 723 Greek source units are accounted for in 723 comparison rows. Selective attributed reception was consulted as declared. Structural checks passed. Independent Hebrew and Greek scholarly review, critical-apparatus collation, independent reception review, and final rendered-layout proofing remain outstanding. Several difficult readings are explicitly provisional.
Hebrew references provide navigation; Greek 4 Reigns references are displayed independently. Greek 1:18a–d are additional source units retained in source order. An editorial absence notice is not biblical wording. The declared source chapter 11 ends at verse 20; familiar English 11:21 appears as source 12:1 and is retained there. Source 12:2–22 consequently correspond to familiar English 12:1–21. Greek 25:10 consists only of the subject completing 25:9, and lacks the Hebrew 25:10 wall-destruction sentence; its short unit remains separately displayed. Counts describe comparison rows and source units, not unique variants.
The Hebrew–English and Greek–English columns retain the wording of their declared sources independently. Each source reference appears with its own translation. The final column gives the governing category, textual observations, and selective attributed reception. Editorial absence notices are explicitly bracketed.
Comparison key
Same and Similar identify corresponding content; Different identifies a meaningful detail; Divergent identifies governing added, absent, or rearranged material; Disparate identifies a major difference in meaning or consequence. The written category is supported by pale shading in the notes cell only. Provisional classifications remain qualified in their notes.
Source basis
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, edited by Karl Elliger and Wilhelm Rudolph; fifth corrected edition edited by Adrian Schenker (1997). Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft publisher web presentation, Reges II.
Septuaginta, edited by Alfred Rahlfs; second revised edition edited by Robert Hanhart (2006). Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft publisher web presentation, Regnorum IV.
Sources and method
Saints Translation V1 — complete book working draft, Sep 8, 2026
H — Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, edited by Karl Elliger and Wilhelm Rudolph; fifth corrected edition edited by Adrian Schenker (1997). Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft publisher web presentation, Reges II.
Chapters 1–25, complete publisher running main text read directly; no critical apparatus collation. At 19:23, the explicitly documented traditional qere is adopted on independent evidence from source R2; the displayed ketiv is recorded in the note. Other significant written/read issues are disclosed locally.
Direct publisher ancient-language main text. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
G — Septuaginta, edited by Alfred Rahlfs; second revised edition edited by Robert Hanhart (2006). Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft publisher web presentation, Regnorum IV.
Chapters 1–25, complete publisher running main text read directly; no critical apparatus collation. Greek 1:18a–d included.
Direct publisher ancient-language main text. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
LX1 — Perseus Digital Library, headword ἱερεία, dictionary entry summary linking LSJ
10:20 lexical gloss sacrifice/festival directly read; full LSJ article not opened.
Direct scholarly lexicon headword summary. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
P1 — Ambrose of Milan, On the Mysteries, III.16–18 and IV.21; English translation hosted by New Advent
III.16–18 and IV.21 directly read for selective baptismal interpretation of Naaman; not an ancient Greek textual witness.
Direct attributed reception in English translation. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
R1 — Rashi on II Kings 8:10–11 and 8:15; Chabad Tanakh with Hebrew commentary and English translation
Displayed Hebrew written/read forms at 8:10 and commentary at 8:10–11,15 read in indexed publisher text; not a BHS apparatus collation.
Direct indexed Hebrew text and attributed commentary; source-specific scope. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
R2 — Chabad Tanakh, II Kings 19, Hebrew written/read display and Rashi commentary
Directly read Hebrew written/read distinctions at 19:23,31,37 and Rashi on 19:4,13; selective contextual commentary read. No BHS critical apparatus access implied.
Direct web text. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
P2 — Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lecture 2, sections 14–19
Directly read English translation: section 15 on Hezekiah; sections 14 and 17–19 on royal repentance as contextual reception, not additional wording in Kings.
Direct web text, Gifford translation as presented by New Advent. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
P3 — Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lecture 18, section 16
Directly read English translation of section 16 on Elisha and bodily resurrection.
Direct web text, Gifford translation as presented by New Advent. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
Chapter source register
Chapter 1 source access
Complete running chapter main text read. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
Chapter 2 source access
Complete running chapter main text read. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
Chapter 3 source access
Complete running chapter main text read. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
Chapter 4 source access
Complete running chapter main text read. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
Chapter 5 source access
Complete running chapter main text read. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
Chapter 6 source access
Complete running chapter main text read. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
Chapter 7 source access
Complete running chapter main text read. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
Chapter 8 source access
Complete running chapter main text read. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
Chapter 9 source access
Complete running chapter main text read. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
Chapter 10 source access
Complete running chapter main text read. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
Chapter 11 source access
Complete running chapter main text read, verses 1–20. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
Chapter 12 source access
Complete running chapter main text read, verses 1–22. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
Chapter 13 source access
Complete running chapter main text read, verses 1–25. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
Chapter 14 source access
Complete running chapter main text read, verses 1–29. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
Chapter 15 source access
Complete running chapter main text read, verses 1–38. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
Chapter 16 source access
Complete running chapter main text read, verses 1–20. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
Chapter 17 source access
Complete running chapter main text read, verses 1–41. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
Chapter 18 source access
Complete running chapter main text read, verses 1–37. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
Chapter 19 source access
Complete running chapter main text read, verses 1–37. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
Chapter 20 source access
Complete running chapter main text read, verses 1–21. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
Chapter 21 source access
Complete running chapter main text read, verses 1–26. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
Chapter 22 source access
Complete running chapter main text read, verses 1–20. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
Chapter 23 source access
Complete running chapter main text read, verses 1–37. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
Chapter 24 source access
Complete running chapter main text read, verses 1–20. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
Chapter 25 source access
Complete running chapter main text read, verses 1–30. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
Translation terms
יהוה / κύριος — YHWH / Lord
Divine-name convention; Lord is used only where the Greek divine referent supports it.
בעל זבוב / Βααλ μυῖαν — Baal-zebub / Baal Fly
2 Kings 1: the Hebrew compound name is retained; Greek's explicit fly noun is translated.
אֲחַזְיָה / Οχοζιας; אֵלִיָּהוּ / Ηλιου — Ahaziah; Elijah
Familiar English names used where referents agree; no substantive name difference erased.
נפש / ψυχή — life in the captain's plea
1:13–14 concerns preservation from death, not an inserted distinction between soul and body.
אַדֶּרֶת / μηλωτή — mantle / sheepskin
Chapter 2 preserves the Greek garment specification.
אַף־הוּא / αφφω — he too / Appho
2:14 retains the Greek unexplained transliteration; a specialist textual and lexical review is still needed.
נֹקֵד / νωκηδ — sheep breeder / noqed
3:4 Greek transliteration retained and explained by its Hebrew counterpart, without importing the gloss as Greek wording.
קֶצֶף / μετάμελος — wrath / regret
3:27 substantial difference; each source leaves the possessor or agent unexpressed.
אָסוּךְ / ὃ ἀλείψομαι — flask / with which I may anoint myself
4:2 preserves the different construal; the rare Hebrew noun remains provisional.
נשי / τόκοι — debt / interest
4:7 retains the Greek financial specificity.
כַרְמֶל בְּצִקְלֹנוֹ / παλάθας — fresh grain in his sack / cakes of dried fruit
4:42 each text has its own food and container detail.
שֵׁשֶׁת אֲלָפִים זָהָב / ἑξακισχιλίους χρυσοῦς — six thousand of gold / six thousand gold coins
5:5 Hebrew gives no explicit unit, and Greek gives no specific coin denomination; neither is silently supplied.
כִּבְרַת־אָרֶץ / δεβραθα τῆς γῆς — some distance across the land / a debratha of the land
5:19 preserves the Greek transliteration and the Hebrew distance idiom without a fabricated modern equivalent.
קַב / κάβος — qab / kab
6:25 ancient capacity retained; no modern conversion or alternate botanical reading supplied.
בֶּן־הֲדַד / υἱὸς Αδερ — Ben-hadad / son of Ader
6:24 preserves the source-specific naming rather than silently harmonizing it.
סְאָה / μέτρον — seah / measure
7:1,16,18: Hebrew specifies the seah; Greek uses the generic measure, with the same prices and ratio.
אֲדֹנָי — the Lord
7:6 Hebrew source has Adonai, not the tetragrammaton; the title is preserved.
מִנְחָה / μαναα — gift / manaa
8:8–9 Greek transliteration retained; context identifies a royal gift.
מַכְבֵּר / μαχμα — coverlet / machma
8:15 rare Hebrew textile term and Greek transliteration remain provisional.
פלשתים / ἀλλόφυλοι — Philistines / foreigners
8:2–3 and 8:28 preserve the Greek designation; Hazael unexpectedly receives this title in 8:28.
גֶּרֶם / γαρεμ — bare steps / garem of the steps
9:13 Greek transliteration retained; the Hebrew architectural detail remains provisional.
משתין בקיר / οὐροῦντα πρὸς τοῖχον — one who urinates against a wall
9:8 vivid source designation retained; the following restrained/released pair is not forced into a legal-status equation.
עֲצָרָה / ἱερεία — solemn assembly / sacrificial festival
10:20 lexical distinction checked through Perseus headword [LX1].
עגלי / δαμάλεις — calves / heifers
10:29 masculine Hebrew versus feminine Greek animal terms retained.
מֶלְתָּחָה / μεσθααλ — wardrobe / Mesthaal
10:22 source-specific noun/transliteration; no independent place identification claimed.
נֵזֶר / νεζερ — crown / nezer
11:12 Greek transliteration retained, with contextual Hebrew gloss in notes.
שְּׂדֵרוֹת / σαδηρωθ — ranks / saderoth
11:8,15 preserves Greek transliteration; exact military or architectural referent remains provisional.
בֶּדֶק / βεδεκ — damage/repair / bedek
Chapter 12 preserves the Greek transliteration; context concerns building repairs.
מַכָּרוֹ / πράσεως — his acquaintance / sale
12:6,8 source-specific revenue collection wording retained.
אשרה / ἄλσος; אשרים / ἄλση — Asherah / grove; Asherim / groves
The Hebrew cult-object designation and Greek grove imagery remain distinct throughout the reforms.
גדוד / μονόζωνοι — raiding band / lightly equipped raiders
The Greek military label is retained contextually rather than replaced wholesale with the Hebrew collective.
חטאות / ἁμαρτίαι; פשע / ἀθετέω — sins; rebellion / breaking faith
Context governs political allegiance and moral terminology; the Greek political repudiation language is retained.
לְבַקֵּר / εἰς τὸ πρωί — for inquiry / for the morning
16:15: Hebrew is provisional, Greek explicit; the ritual-purpose distinction is flagged Disparate.
צלחת / ἀλάβαστρον — dish / alabaster jar
21:13 preserves the different household-vessel image in the judgment comparison.
כמרים / χωμαριμ; קדשים / καδησιμ — kemarim / chomarim; consecrated cult men / kadesim
23:5,7 cult labels remain distinct; particular ritual practices are not inferred from these labels alone.
מעלות / ἀναβαθμοί — steps
20:9–11: the source image is retained without substituting an unverified technical sundial reconstruction.
כִּכַּר / τάλαντον — talent
23:33 preserves one versus one hundred talents of gold; no fixed modern weight or value is supplied.
רב־טבחים / ἀρχιμάγειρος — chief of the slaughterers / chief cook
Chapter 25 uses the literal wording of the court titles, whose narrative duties are military; this is not an assertion of modern occupational equivalence.
מכנות / μεχωνωθ; כתרת / χωθαρ; שבכה / σαβαχα — stands / mechonoth; capital / chothar; latticework / sabacha
25:13,16–17 retains the Greek transliterations alongside the Hebrew architectural terms.
Translation decisions
Sep 8, 2026: Both ancient-language publisher texts, not an English translation, govern the drafted columns.
Sep 8, 2026: Greek 1:18a–d retained in source sequence as four additional rows. The absence cells are editorial notices.
Sep 8, 2026: Unsupported reception entries are omitted rather than attributed without verification.
Sep 8, 2026: Added selective verified reception: Ambrose on Naaman, and Rashi on 8:10–11,15. The Chabad written/read display confirms the traditional 8:10 alternative without establishing BHS apparatus access.
Sep 8, 2026: At 19:23, adopt independently verified traditional qere בְּרֹב for readable many chariots, explicitly noting displayed ketiv בְּרֹכב. At 19:31,37 retain shorter displayed consonantal readings while recording verified read-but-unwritten hosts and his sons. Further written/read policy review remains open.
Sep 8, 2026: Complete chapters 13–25 from the publisher main texts, preserving changes in succession, divine/human agency, negatives, ritual purpose, names, quantities, and clause order. Greek 25:9–10 is retained as one sentence across two source units.
Sep 8, 2026: Selective additional reception consulted: Rashi on 19:4,13; Cyril of Jerusalem on Hezekiah, Manasseh, Elisha’s bones, and Nebuchadnezzar. Reception is attributed and separated from base-text wording.
Sep 8, 2026: Final structural coverage reconciled to 719 Hebrew verses, 723 Greek units, and 723 comparison rows. Eighteen rows receive provisional or firm Disparate classifications with an explicit index; these are affected rows, not eighteen unique textual variants.
Sep 8, 2026: The master JSON is the complete textual handoff. Chapter TSV files are drafting intermediates and may lack later note additions or corrections.
Classification totals
Different: 249 comparison rows.
Disparate: 18 comparison rows.
Divergent: 68 comparison rows.
Same: 264 comparison rows.
Similar: 124 comparison rows.
Total: 723 comparison rows. Eighteen Disparate rows are affected rows, not eighteen unique textual variants.
Disparate index
2:14 — Hebrew 2:14 / Greek 2:14
Text: Greek explicitly narrates failure of the first strike (‘it did not separate’); Hebrew does not, and names YHWH. Hebrew אַף־הוּא is rendered ‘he too’; Greek preserves the unexplained transliteration αφφω, ‘Appho.’ This provisional rendering displays a real textual difficulty rather than silently deleting it.
3:27 — Hebrew 3:27 / Greek 3:27
Text: Hebrew has the prospective ‘was to reign’ and קֶצֶף, ‘wrath’; Greek has aorist ‘had reigned’ and μετάμελος, ‘regret.’ The resulting portrayal differs materially. Neither text expressly identifies whose wrath or regret it was; no divine or human agent is inserted.
4:35 — Hebrew 4:35 / Greek 4:35
Text: Hebrew assigns seven repetitions to the child's sneezing; Greek assigns them to Elisha's bending over the child and contains no sneeze. The agency and narrated means of recovery differ materially.
6:22 — Hebrew 6:22 / Greek 6:22
Text: Hebrew has a rhetorical question about striking captives; Greek εἰ μή is rendered as an exception, potentially permitting striking those captured by the king's own arms. Both forbid killing these men and order their release after food. The Greek exception syntax and its precise force require specialist review; this classification is provisional.
8:10 — Hebrew 8:10 / Greek 8:10
Text: The displayed Hebrew running text has לֹא, ‘not,’ retained here as the negative written reading; its familiar alternate ‘to him’ reading is not silently adopted. Greek has αὐτῷ, ‘to him,’ and a positive life announcement, followed by second-person ἀποθανῇ, ‘you will die.’ A directly consulted written/read apparatus is still needed; this is a declared provisional treatment of the publisher's displayed wording. Rabbinic: Rashi on 8:10 [R1] understands the life saying as addressed to Hazael, who would survive Ben-hadad and gain the throne. The Chabad Hebrew display explicitly distinguishes read לו, “to him,” from written לא, “not”; this confirms the traditional alternative outside the BHS apparatus.
9:32 — Hebrew 9:32 / Greek 9:32
Text: Hebrew has a call for allies, ‘Who is with me?’ and two or three officials. Greek has a direct challenge and command, ‘Who are you? Come down with me,’ and exactly two eunuchs. The immediate speech act and participants differ materially.
12:10 — Hebrew 12:10 / Greek 12:10
Text: Hebrew has a coherent altar/right/entry location; Greek has the transliteration ιαμιβιν and the difficult phrase ‘in the house of a man of the Lord's house.’ This substantially different location wording is retained provisionally, not restored from Hebrew. Greek also has found rather than brought silver.
12:17 — Hebrew 12:17 / Greek 12:17
Text: Hebrew explicitly excludes this silver from entry into the house; Greek affirmatively describes what was brought in. Both allocate it to the priests, but the intake rule differs, and the sin/guilt order is reversed.
13:13 — Hebrew 13:13 / Greek 13:13
Text: Greek lacks Joash's burial clause and attaches Samaria and ‘sons of Israel’ to Jeroboam's enthronement. Hebrew instead reports burial with Israel's kings: a substantial change in the narrative assertion.
14:29 — Hebrew 14:29 / Greek 14:29
Text: Hebrew gives Zechariah succeeding his father Jeroboam in Israel; Greek instead gives Azariah succeeding his father Amaziah, changing the person and kingdom in the succession notice.
16:15 — Hebrew 16:15 / Greek 16:15
Text: Hebrew לְבַקֵּר provisionally concerns inquiry or examination; Greek εἰς τὸ πρωί expressly assigns the bronze altar to the morning. This changes its stated ritual role. The Hebrew purpose remains lexically uncertain and requires review.
16:18 — Hebrew 16:18 / Greek 16:18
Text: Hebrew includes a Sabbath canopy among structures altered; Greek asserts construction of a seat's foundation and does not mention Sabbath. Both architectural descriptions remain difficult; the distinct objects and actions are preserved provisionally.
17:20 — Hebrew 17:20 / Greek 17:20
Text: Hebrew makes YHWH the agent rejecting Israel; Greek makes Israel the agent rejecting the Lord before His response. The explicit object τὸν κύριον prevents harmonizing the reversed agency.
17:34 — Hebrew 17:34 / Greek 17:34
Text: Hebrew explicitly denies fear of YHWH and obedience; Greek lacks both negatives and positively states fear and action according to the law. Greek does not express an object after ‘fear.’ This changes the stated assessment, despite the mixed worship in surrounding verses.
17:40 — Hebrew 17:40 / Greek 17:40
Text: Hebrew reports the people's past disobedience and continued old practice; Greek gives a second-person future prohibition concerning ‘their judgment.’ The grammatical person and narrative function change substantially.
19:25 — Hebrew 19:25 / Greek 19:25
Text: Greek lacks the question and long-ago planning clauses, and its difficult conclusion speaks of removals/deportations and warriors rather than Hebrew's ruined heaps. The compressed Greek syntax is provisional; no fluent reconstruction is claimed.
23:10 — Hebrew 23:10 / Greek 23:10
Text: Hebrew explicitly negates the purpose with le-vilti; the displayed Greek infinitive clause has no negative. Read as purpose, Greek reverses the stated consequence; it may instead describe the site's use. The awkward wording is retained provisionally, not repaired by adding not. Sons/son also differ.
23:33 — Hebrew 23:33 / Greek 23:33
Text: The gold penalty differs a hundredfold: one talent in Hebrew, one hundred in Greek. Hebrew's displayed bi-melokh says while reigning; Greek explicitly prevents reigning. Binding/removal and Riblah/Deblatha also differ. No unverified Hebrew reading alternative is silently adopted.
Outstanding review
Independent Hebrew and Greek specialist review remains outstanding.
No Göttingen apparatus, alternate recension, or manuscript witnesses have been collated.
The chronology of Hebrew 1:17 and Greek 1:18a is preserved without harmonization; a historical explanation requires further evidence.
Greek 2:14 αφφω and Hebrew אַף־הוּא require further textual and lexical review; the provisional translations preserve both forms.
The precise age range in 2:23–24 and the reproductive image in 2:19–21 remain matters for contextual lexical review.
3:4 Greek ἐν τῇ ἐπαναστάσει and the tribute wording require further lexical review; no annual frequency is supplied.
3:24 difficult Hebrew final clause requires a directly accessible written/read or apparatus check.
4:16–17 living/returning-season idiom requires further lexical review.
4:39 αριωθ and τολύπη botanical vocabulary require specialist verification.
5:18 pardon/propitiation wording and the temporal clauses require further syntactic review; no general permission for idolatry is inferred.
5:19 the exact length implied by the Hebrew idiom and Greek transliteration remains uncertain.
6:22 Greek εἰ μή syntax and the potential exception concerning prisoners require specialist review; Disparate is provisional.
6:27 the negative wish in the displayed Hebrew and Greek is retained; the royal utterance needs further contextual interpretation.
6:33 speaker identification remains uncertain in Hebrew; no emendation of messenger to king is adopted.
8:10 displayed Hebrew לֹא, negative, is retained provisionally. A directly consulted written/read apparatus is needed before adopting the alternate לו reading; Greek positive life announcement and second-person death verb are preserved.
8:11 face-and-shame syntax and unnamed participants require further review.
8:16 concurrent Jehoshaphat clause is present only in Hebrew; chronology is not harmonized.
8:27 affinal kinship terminology requires genealogical review without rewriting the selected word.
9:16 the antecedent of the added Greek strength description remains uncertain.
9:20 Greek driver/conveyed-person syntax differs from Hebrew and requires further review.
9:26 Greek preposition and blood syntax require specialist review.
9:29 eleventh-year accession differs from 8:25 twelfth-year notice in both sources; chronology is not harmonized.
10:25 the temple city/citadel location needs architectural and lexical review.
10:26–27 singular/plural pillar distribution and Hebrew 10:26 singular pronoun require textual review.
11:6 Hebrew מסח and 11:10 Greek τρισσούς require further lexical review.
11:8 Greek narrative third-person ending differs from the Hebrew imperative and requires syntactic review.
12:10 Greek ιαμιβιν and house-of-a-man location are opaque and require direct textual/apparatus investigation.
12:22 Greek genealogy phrase ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ Σωμηρ is unresolved and requires specialist review; provisional wording retains the difficulty.
13:13 and 14:29: the substantially different Greek succession notices require independent textual and historical review, without substituting the Hebrew notices.
14:14 hostages versus Greek sons of mixed unions, and 14:25 restored/shifted language, need specialist lexical review.
15:5 Apphousoth, 15:10 Keblaam, and 15:25 the Greek fifty of the four hundred require independent textual and identification review.
16:15 Hebrew inquiry/examination and 16:18 Sabbath-canopy versus seat-foundation architecture remain provisional; the different ritual roles and actions are not harmonized.
17:6 and 18:11 Greek Ore may be a place form or a reading related to mountains. No geographical identification has been established.
17:8–9,21,24 contain difficult Greek syntax; 17:20,34,40 preserve substantive changes in agency, negatives, and speech function. An independent Greek review is needed.
19:23 is a declared traditional-qere exception. A consistent bookwide written/read policy and directly available BHS apparatus still need review, including 8:10, 19:31,37, 20:4, 23:33,36, and 24:18.
19:24 Egypt/confinement streams and 19:25 the compressed Greek deportation/warrior clause need further lexical and syntactic review; 19:25 remains provisionally Disparate.
20:9–11 the sign’s conditional syntax, and 20:17 the Greek no-word-left-over clause, require independent review. The shadow is not recast as a modern astronomical mechanism.
21:6 and 23:24 thelētēs/thelētai practitioner labels are provisional; 21:13 measuring line/plumb line/dish versus measure/weight/alabaster jar imagery remains distinct.
23:5 the singular Hebrew incense verb, 23:7 woven houses and Greek chettiin, 23:11 Nathan king/eunuch syntax, and 23:12 Hebrew hurried-away wording require specialist review.
23:10 Greek lacks the Hebrew purpose negative; a purpose reading changes the consequence, but a descriptive-site-use attachment is possible. Translation and Disparate classification remain explicitly provisional.
23:33 one versus one hundred gold talents is directly visible in the main texts. Any historical or scribal explanation requires evidence not consulted here.
24:2 Greek leaves the sender unnamed; 24:17 gives son rather than uncle. Neither agency nor genealogy is silently harmonized.
25:11 Greek stērigma and 25:12 gabin, 25:14 vessel labels, and 25:18 son of the second rank require lexical review. Chapter 25 royal office titles also need a final contextual terminology pass.
The complete draft needs a further English style pass, especially proper-name normalization that preserves substantive source differences, and independent verification of the selective reception references.
Draft review record
Primary source reading and drafting
All 25 chapters in both declared publisher main texts. Completed by authoring agent; no independent review.
Alignment and comparison
719 Hebrew verses; 723 Greek source units. Completed working comparison; uncertain classifications marked.
Selective reception consultation
Only passages specified in source register and notes. Direct sources consulted as declared; not comprehensive reception history.
Structural validation
All 723 rows, reference sequences, counts, categories, chapter source entries. Passed.
Independent linguistic and citation review
Whole book. Outstanding.
Final document layout
Native Google Docs and any export. Production handoff; no rendered-layout verification claimed here.
Coverage record
comparison rows: 723
completed chapters: 1–25
greek source units: 723
hebrew source verses: 719
remaining chapters: None
review: All chapter sequences, Hebrew and Greek reference sequences, required row fields, allowed categories, unique comparison references, chapter source entries, and totals checked across the complete book. All translation quantities use spelled-out numbers. These structural checks do not establish independent linguistic accuracy; final document rendering is assigned to production.
Chapter 1: 18 Hebrew verses; 22 Greek units; 22 comparison rows.
Chapter 2: 25 Hebrew verses; 25 Greek units; 25 comparison rows.
Chapter 3: 27 Hebrew verses; 27 Greek units; 27 comparison rows.
Chapter 4: 44 Hebrew verses; 44 Greek units; 44 comparison rows.
Chapter 5: 27 Hebrew verses; 27 Greek units; 27 comparison rows.
Chapter 6: 33 Hebrew verses; 33 Greek units; 33 comparison rows.
Chapter 7: 20 Hebrew verses; 20 Greek units; 20 comparison rows.
Chapter 8: 29 Hebrew verses; 29 Greek units; 29 comparison rows.
Chapter 9: 37 Hebrew verses; 37 Greek units; 37 comparison rows.
Chapter 10: 36 Hebrew verses; 36 Greek units; 36 comparison rows.
Chapter 11: 20 Hebrew verses; 20 Greek units; 20 comparison rows.
Chapter 12: 22 Hebrew verses; 22 Greek units; 22 comparison rows.
Chapter 13: 25 Hebrew verses; 25 Greek units; 25 comparison rows.
Chapter 14: 29 Hebrew verses; 29 Greek units; 29 comparison rows.
Chapter 15: 38 Hebrew verses; 38 Greek units; 38 comparison rows.
Chapter 16: 20 Hebrew verses; 20 Greek units; 20 comparison rows.
Chapter 17: 41 Hebrew verses; 41 Greek units; 41 comparison rows.
Chapter 18: 37 Hebrew verses; 37 Greek units; 37 comparison rows.
Chapter 19: 37 Hebrew verses; 37 Greek units; 37 comparison rows.
Chapter 20: 21 Hebrew verses; 21 Greek units; 21 comparison rows.
Chapter 21: 26 Hebrew verses; 26 Greek units; 26 comparison rows.
Chapter 22: 20 Hebrew verses; 20 Greek units; 20 comparison rows.
Chapter 23: 37 Hebrew verses; 37 Greek units; 37 comparison rows.
Chapter 24: 20 Hebrew verses; 20 Greek units; 20 comparison rows.
Chapter 25: 30 Hebrew verses; 30 Greek units; 30 comparison rows.
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