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Post by gsmithb on Jun 27, 2014 4:50:15 GMT
There seems to be a disagreement among scholars concerning verse 19 of chapter 6. The disagreement is over how many were actually slain. Some believe there were only 70 Beth-shemites killed and the 50,000 were the Philistines. Another belief is that the 70 are the elders and the 50,000 are common people. The Septuagint reads it as we do, he smote seventy men, and fifty thousand men.
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Post by mikej on Jun 27, 2014 5:01:35 GMT
Mr. Bullinger in his Companion Bible suggests the following:
fifty thousand and threescore and ten men = 50,070. This number being out of all proportion to the size of Beth-shemesh, has led to various readings. Some codices omit 50,000. The Syriac and Arabic versions read "five" instead of fifty. Josephus reads "seventy". The Hebrew text reads "seventy men two fifties and one thousand " = 70 + 100 + 1; 000 = 1,170. men. Hebrew. ’ish. App-14.
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