2 Samuel 3 — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: MT 3:39
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.
2 Samuel 3
A house rising amid rivalry
Editorial Christian reading of the dynasty from which Acts 13:23 names Jesus as Savior [NT1]. Royal growth does not imply approval of every act.
3:1–5 | War and the sons born in Hebron
Verse MT 3:1 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:1
The war between Saul’s house and David’s house lasted a long time. David grew stronger and stronger, while Saul’s house grew weaker and weaker.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:1
The war between Saul’s house and David’s house lasted a long time. David’s house grew stronger and stronger, while Saul’s house grew weaker and weaker.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Greek explicitly names David’s house as the growing power; Hebrew names David himself. The prolonged struggle and opposed fortunes agree.
Verse MT 3:2 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:2
Sons were born to David in Hebron. His firstborn was Amnon, by Ahinoam the Jezreelite;
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:2
Sons were born to David in Hebron. His firstborn was Amnon, by Ahinoam the Jezreelite;
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The birthplace, birth order, son, and mother correspond. The list continues through verse 5.
Verse MT 3:3 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:3
his second was Chileab, by Abigail, the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third was Absalom son of Maacah, daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:3
his second was Daluia, by Abigail the Carmelite; and the third was Absalom son of Maacah, daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The second son’s name differs substantially, Chileab / Daluia. Greek identifies Abigail herself as the Carmelite and omits wife of Nabal. The third son’s family corresponds, with familiar forms used for secure equivalents.
Verse MT 3:4 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:4
the fourth was Adonijah son of Haggith; and the fifth was Shephatiah son of Abital;
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:4
the fourth was Ornia son of Phengith; and the fifth was Sabatia, by Abital;
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The substantial forms Adonijah / Ornia, Haggith / Phengith, and Shephatiah / Sabatia are kept separately. The birth positions and Abital correspond; these differences are not treated as proof of additional children.
Verse MT 3:5 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:5
and the sixth was Ithream, by Eglah, David’s wife. These were born to David in Hebron.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:5
and the sixth was Ithream, by Eglah, David’s wife. These were born to David in Hebron.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The sixth son, mother, and concluding birthplace agree. Only Eglah receives the explicit title David’s wife here; the translation does not redistribute it through the list.
3:6–11 | Abner’s quarrel with Saul’s son
Verse MT 3:6 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:6
While there was war between Saul’s house and David’s house, Abner was strengthening his position within Saul’s house.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:6
While there was war between Saul’s house and David’s house, Abner was holding power over Saul’s house.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew describes Abner strengthening himself within the house; Greek describes his control of it. The political setting agrees.
Verse MT 3:7 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:7
Saul had a concubine named Rizpah daughter of Aiah. He said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:7
Saul had a concubine, Rizpah daughter of Ial. Mephibosheth son of Saul said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew leaves the speaker unnamed here, identifying him as Ish-bosheth in verse 8. Greek explicitly names Mephibosheth son of Saul and gives Ial for Rizpah’s father. This is not Jonathan’s son of the same Greek name in 4:4. The sexual accusation remains a speaker’s claim.
Verse MT 3:8 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:8
Abner became very angry at Ish-bosheth’s words and said, “Am I a dog’s head belonging to Judah? Today I show steadfast kindness to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers and his friends, and I have not delivered you into David’s hand. Yet today you charge me with wrongdoing concerning the woman!
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:8
Abner became very angry over Mephibosheth’s statement. Abner said to him, “Am I a dog’s head? Today I have shown mercy to the house of Saul your father, and toward brothers and acquaintances, and I have not deserted to David’s house. Yet today you call me to account for wrongdoing concerning a woman!
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek omits belonging to Judah, uses Mephibosheth rather than Ish-bosheth, and substitutes Abner’s not deserting for his not delivering the king to David. Hebrew’s Judah clause is difficult but retained. The woman is not assigned blame by changing the charge’s target.
Verse MT 3:9 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:9
May God do thus to Abner, and add more to him, if I do not do for David just as YHWH swore to him:
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:9
May God do these things to Abner, and add these things to him, for just as the Lord swore to David, so I will do for him this very day:
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek adds this very day. Hebrew’s oath formula is completed as an English conditional self-curse; Greek presents the following resolve more directly. Neither source specifies the threatened penalty.
Verse MT 3:10 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:10
to transfer the kingdom from Saul’s house and establish David’s throne over Israel and over Judah, from Dan to Beersheba.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:10
to remove the kingdom from Saul’s house and raise up David’s throne over Israel and over Judah, from Dan to Beersheba.”
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The intended transfer of royal power, the two peoples, and the geographical limits correspond. Establish / raise up is an ordinary throne idiom.
Verse MT 3:11 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:11
He could no longer answer Abner a word, because he feared him.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:11
Mephibosheth could no longer answer Abner a word, because he feared him.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Greek again names Mephibosheth, while Hebrew continues with the unnamed subject referring back to Ish-bosheth. The silencing fear agrees; the name divergence is recorded at verses 7–8.
3:12–21 | Covenant negotiations and Michal’s return
Verse MT 3:12 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:12
Abner sent messengers on his behalf to David, saying, “Whose is the land?” He also said, “Make your covenant with me, and look, my hand will be with you to bring all Israel over to you.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:12
Abner sent messengers to David at Thailam, where he was at the time, saying, “Make your covenant with me, and look, my hand will be with you to turn all the house of Israel to you.”
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Hebrew’s compressed on his behalf and Whose is the land? differ from Greek’s location at Thailam and its time clause. Greek also says all the house of Israel. Neither an identification of Thailam nor a harmonized itinerary is supplied.
Verse MT 3:13 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:13
He said, “Good. I will make a covenant with you. But I ask one thing of you: you will not see my face unless you first bring Michal daughter of Saul when you come to see my face.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:13
David said, “I will gladly make a covenant with you. But I ask one thing of you: you will not see my face unless you bring Michal daughter of Saul when you come to see my face.”
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Greek names David and joins the favorable response to the covenant promise. Hebrew’s first is explicit in the condition. Both require Michal’s arrival; neither records her consent here.
Verse MT 3:14 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:14
David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, saying, “Give me my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a hundred Philistine foreskins.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:14
David sent messengers to Mephibosheth son of Saul, saying, “Give me back my wife Michal, whom I obtained for a hundred foreskins of foreigners.”
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The royal name differs again. Hebrew specifies betrothal; Greek obtaining and restoration. Both give one hundred, which is not changed to the two hundred recounted in the Hebrew form of 1 Samuel 18:27.
Verse MT 3:15 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:15
Ish-bosheth sent and took her from her husband, from Paltiel son of Laish.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:15
Mephibosheth sent and took her from her husband, from Paltiel son of Selles.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The king’s name and Paltiel’s father’s name differ. Both call Paltiel her husband and state that she was taken from him, without resolving the competing marital claims in the translation.
Verse MT 3:16 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:16
Her husband went with her, walking and weeping behind her as far as Bahurim. Abner said to him, “Go back.” He went back.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:16
Her husband went with her, weeping behind her as far as Barakim. Abner said to him, “Go back.” He went back.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The destination is Bahurim in Hebrew and Barakim in Greek. Both retain the husband’s grief and compelled return; no response from Michal is invented.
Verse MT 3:17 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:17
Abner had spoken with Israel’s elders, saying, “In days past you were seeking David as king over you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:17
Abner said to Israel’s elders, “In days past you were seeking David to reign over you.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The audience and earlier desire for David’s rule agree. Yesterday and the third day is rendered as the ordinary idiom for earlier days in both columns.
Verse MT 3:18 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:18
Now act, for YHWH spoke concerning David, saying, ‘By the hand of David My servant I will save My people Israel from the hand of the Philistines and from the hand of all their enemies.’”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:18
Now act, for the Lord spoke concerning David, saying, ‘By the hand of My servant David I will save Israel from the hand of foreigners and from the hand of all their enemies.’”
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew includes My people, absent in Greek. Hebrew’s saving infinitive functions within the quoted promise and is rendered with the English finite clause I will save; Greek has that finite verb explicitly. The words are presented as Abner’s report of the divine promise.
Verse MT 3:19 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:19
Abner also spoke in Benjamin’s hearing. Abner also went to speak in David’s hearing at Hebron about everything that seemed good to Israel and to the whole house of Benjamin.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:19
Abner spoke in Benjamin’s hearing. Abner went to speak in David’s hearing at Hebron about everything that pleased Israel and the whole house of Benjamin.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The consultations, destination, and agreement of Israel and Benjamin correspond. Hearing preserves the ears idiom without implying a secret audience.
Verse MT 3:20 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:20
Abner came to David at Hebron with twenty men. David made a feast for Abner and the men with him.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:20
Abner came to David at Hebron with twenty men. David made a drinking feast for Abner and the men with him.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: The visitors, number, and hospitality agree. Greek potos foregrounds the drinking aspect of the feast; Hebrew mishteh also belongs to the drinking-feast vocabulary.
Verse MT 3:21 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:21
Abner said to David, “Let me rise and go and gather all Israel to my lord the king. They will make a covenant with you, and you will reign over all that your soul desires.” David sent Abner away, and he went in peace.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:21
Abner said to David, “I will rise now and go and gather all Israel to my lord the king. I will make a covenant with you, and you will reign over all that your soul desires.” David sent Abner away, and he went in peace.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew makes the gathered people the covenant-making party, they; Greek has Abner say I. The assembly promise and peaceful departure agree.
Bloodshed refused as the foundation of rule
Editorial Christian moral reading beside Christ’s call to mercy [NT2]. David’s protest, public grief, and limited power remain distinct narrative claims.
3:22–30 | Joab returns and kills Abner
Verse MT 3:22 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:22
Look, David’s servants and Joab were returning from a raid, bringing much spoil with them. Abner was not with David in Hebron, for David had sent him away and he had gone in peace.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:22
Look, David’s servants and Joab were arriving from an expedition, bringing much spoil with them. Abner was not with David in Hebron, for David had sent him away and he had departed in peace.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The returning force, spoil, and explanation for Abner’s absence correspond. David is supplied as the clear sender in both abbreviated clauses.
Verse MT 3:23 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:23
Joab and all the force with him arrived. They told Joab, “Abner son of Ner came to the king, and he sent him away, and he went in peace.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:23
Joab and all his army were brought in. Joab was told, “Abner son of Ner has come to David, and he has sent him away, and he departed in peace.”
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Greek has the passive were brought in and names David where Hebrew says the king. The report repeats the peaceful departure in both sources.
Verse MT 3:24 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:24
Joab came to the king and said, “What have you done? Look, Abner came to you! Why did you send him away, so that he has gone off?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:24
Joab came in to the king and said, “What is this you have done? Look, Abner came to you! Why have you sent him away, and he has departed in peace?
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek repeats in peace; Hebrew instead intensifies the departure with gone off. Joab’s challenge to David remains direct speech.
Verse MT 3:25 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:25
You know Abner son of Ner: he came to deceive you, to learn your going out and your coming in, and to learn everything you are doing.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:25
Do you not know the wickedness of Abner son of Ner? He came to deceive you, to learn your going out and your coming in, and to learn everything you are doing.”
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek adds wickedness and casts the opening as a question. Both voice Joab’s accusation of espionage; the translation does not turn it into an established narrator’s verdict.
Verse MT 3:26 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:26
Joab went out from David and sent messengers after Abner. They brought him back from the cistern of Sirah, but David did not know.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:26
Joab returned from David and sent messengers after Abner. They brought him back from the well of Seiram, but David did not know.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew Sirah and Greek Seiram are retained separately, as are cistern / well. Both expressly exclude David’s knowledge of this recall.
Verse MT 3:27 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:27
Abner returned to Hebron. Joab took him aside into the gateway to speak with him privately, and struck him there in the belly. He died for the blood of Asahel, Joab’s brother.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:27
Abner returned to Hebron. Joab took him aside beside the gate to speak with him while lying in wait, and struck him there in the loins. He died for the blood of Asahel, Joab’s brother.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek makes the ambush explicit; Hebrew’s difficult besheli is rendered privately. The location and bodily terms also differ. Joab identifies the clear brother-referent in Hebrew; Greek names him expressly. The revenge motive is not translated as divine authorization.
Verse MT 3:28 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:28
Afterward David heard and said, “I and my kingdom are forever innocent before YHWH of the blood of Abner son of Ner.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:28
Afterward David heard and said, “I and my kingdom are forever guiltless before the Lord of the blood of Abner son of Ner.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both contain David’s declaration concerning Abner’s blood. Before renders the compressed relation to God in the innocence formula; it is not a new divine verdict added by the narrator.
Verse MT 3:29 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:29
Let it fall upon Joab’s head and upon his father’s whole house. May Joab’s house never lack someone with a discharge, someone who is leprous, someone holding a spindle, someone falling by the sword, or someone lacking bread.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:29
Let it fall upon Joab’s head and upon his father’s whole house. May Joab’s house never lack someone with a seminal discharge, someone who is leprous, someone holding a staff, someone falling by the sword, or someone lacking bread.”
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek specifies a seminal discharge and gives staff where Hebrew pelekh is provisionally spindle [D2]; crutch is an alternative. The skin terms are not equated with a modern diagnosis. These afflictions belong to David’s curse, not a general claim that illness or disability proves guilt.
Verse MT 3:30 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:30
Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner because he had put their brother Asahel to death in the battle at Gibeon.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:30
Joab and Abishai his brother kept watch for Abner because he had put their brother Asahel to death in the battle at Gibeon.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew states the killing; Greek describes the brothers’ watch or ambush. Both give the same revenge motive. The Greek verb is not silently replaced by Hebrew killed.
3:31–39 | The lament, the fast, and the king’s declaration
Verse MT 3:31 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:31
David said to Joab and all the people with him, “Tear your clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourn before Abner.” King David walked behind the bier.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:31
David said to Joab and all the people with him, “Tear your garments, put on sackcloth, and beat yourselves in mourning before Abner.” King David walked behind the bier.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Greek makes the bodily mourning gesture more explicit. Both place David behind the bier and require Joab and the people to mourn.
Verse MT 3:32 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:32
They buried Abner in Hebron. The king lifted his voice and wept at Abner’s grave, and all the people wept.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:32
They buried Abner in Hebron. The king lifted his voice and wept at his grave, and all the people wept over Abner.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The burial and shared grief agree. Greek expressly places Abner at the end of the people’s mourning clause; Hebrew names him with the grave.
Verse MT 3:33 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:33
The king lamented over Abner and said, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:33
The king lamented over Abner and said, “Should Abner die according to Nabal’s death?
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew nabal is the common noun fool; Greek transcribes it as Nabal, a personal name, and repeats that name in verse 34. The different form of comparison is preserved without supplying a detailed connection to 1 Samuel 25.
Verse MT 3:34 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:34
Your hands were not bound, and your feet were not put in bronze fetters.
As one falls before wicked men, you fell.” All the people wept over him again.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:34
Your hands were not bound;
your feet were not in fetters.
He did not bring near, as Nabal;
before men of injustice you fell.” All the people gathered to weep over him.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek has a difficult additional clause with Nabal and an unstated subject and object; its third-person verb is retained provisionally. Hebrew specifies bronze fetters and renewed weeping; Greek gives gathering. Neither version’s abrupt poetry is repaired by importing the other.
Verse MT 3:35 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:35
All the people came to have David eat bread while it was still day. David swore, “May God do thus to me, and add more, if I taste bread or anything at all before the sun sets.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:35
All the people came to have David eat a funeral meal with bread while it was still day. David swore, “May God do these things to me, and add these things: unless the sun sets, I will certainly not taste bread or anything at all.”
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Greek’s meal verb specifies a funeral meal; Hebrew more broadly describes feeding him. The conditional oath and refusal to eat before sunset agree in substance, though their negative constructions differ.
Verse MT 3:36 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:36
All the people noticed, and it pleased them, just as everything the king did seemed good to all the people.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:36
All the people understood, and everything the king did before the people pleased them.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Both report public approval. Hebrew compares this act with the king’s other actions; Greek gives a more compact approval of everything he did before them.
Verse MT 3:37 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:37
All the people and all Israel knew that day that putting Abner son of Ner to death had not come from the king.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:37
All the people and all Israel knew that day that putting Abner son of Ner to death had not come from the king.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both expressly state the people’s recognition that the king did not initiate Abner’s death.
Verse MT 3:38 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:38
The king said to his servants, “Do you not know that a leader and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:38
The king said to his servants, “Do you not know that a great leader has fallen this day in Israel,
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Hebrew’s paired descriptions and Greek’s great leader express corresponding praise. Greek joins the following statement to this question.
Verse MT 3:39 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 3:39
Today I am weak, though anointed king, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too hard for me. May YHWH repay the evildoer according to his evil.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 3:39
and that today I am a kinsman and one appointed by a king? But these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are harder than I. May the Lord repay the evildoer according to his wickedness.”
Classification & Notes
Disparate
Text: Hebrew’s weak though anointed king becomes Greek’s kinsman and appointed by a king, substantially changing David’s account of his position. The Greek does not identify the appointing king. Both contrast him with Zeruiah’s sons and invoke divine repayment.