2 Samuel 20:24

20:24 Adoniram ¹  was supervisor of the work crews. ²  Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the secretary.

2 Samuel 20:1

Sheba’s Rebellion

20:1 Now a wicked man ³  named Sheba son of Bicri, a Benjaminite, ⁴  happened to be there. He blew the trumpet ⁵  and said,

“We have no share in David;

we have no inheritance in this son of Jesse!

Every man go home, ⁶  O Israel!”

1 Raja-raja 4:3

4:3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, wrote down what happened. ⁷ 

Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was in charge of the records.

[20:24]  ¹ tn Heb “Adoram” (so KJV, NAB, NRSV, CEV), but see 1 Kgs 4:6; 5:14.

[20:24]  ² tn Heb “was over the forced labor.”

[20:1]  ³ tn Heb “a man of worthlessness.”

[20:1]  ⁴ tn The expression used here יְמִינִי (yÿmini) is a short form of the more common “Benjamin.” It appears elsewhere in 1 Sam 9:4 and Esth 2:5. Cf. 1 Sam 9:1.

[20:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “the shophar” (the ram’s horn trumpet). So also v. 22.

[20:1]  ⁶ tc The MT reads לְאֹהָלָיו (lÿ’ohalav, “to his tents”). For a similar idiom, see 19:9. An ancient scribal tradition understands the reading to be לְאלֹהָיו (le’lohav, “to his gods”). The word is a tiqqun sopherim, and the scribes indicate that they changed the word from “gods” to “tents” so as to soften its theological implications. In a consonantal Hebrew text the change involved only the metathesis of two letters.

[4:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “were scribes”; NASB, NIV, NRSV “secretaries”; TEV, NLT “court secretaries.”