1 Samuel 2:31-33

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. 1 Samuel 2:31 tn Heb “chop off your arm.” The arm here symbolizes strength and activity.
2. 1 Samuel 2:31 tn Heb “arm.”
3. 1 Samuel 2:32 tn Heb “you will see [the] trouble of [the] dwelling place.” Since God’s dwelling place/sanctuary is in view, the pronoun is supplied in the translation (see v. 29).
4. 1 Samuel 2:32 tn Heb “in all which he does good with Israel.”
5. 1 Samuel 2:32 tc The LXX and a Qumran manuscript have the first person pronoun “my” here.
6. 1 Samuel 2:32 tn Heb “all the days.”
7. 1 Samuel 2:33 tc The MT reads “your eyes.” The LXX, a Qumran ms, and a few old Latin mss read “his eyes.”
8. 1 Samuel 2:33 tn Heb “to cause your eyes to fail.” Elsewhere this verb, when used of eyes, refers to bloodshot eyes resulting from weeping, prolonged staring, or illness (see Lev 26:16; Pss 69:3; 119:82; Lam 2:11; 4:17).
9. 1 Samuel 2:33 tn The MT reads “and to cause your soul grief.” The LXX, a Qumran ms, and a few old Latin mss read “his soul.”
10. 1 Samuel 2:33 tn Heb “and all the increase of your house.”
11. 1 Samuel 2:33 tc The MT says “all the increase of your house will die men.” The LXX and a Qumran ms, read “all…will die by the sword of men.” This reading (cf. ESV, NAB, NRSV, TEV, CEV, NLT) makes sense syntactically. Some translations take “men” adverbially, “die as men,” and then understand it to mean something like “all…will die in the prime of life” (cf. NASB, NIV, KJV). However, the proposed syntax is very odd and such an adverbial function for “men” is otherwise unattested.