Bilangan 2:3-4
Konteks2:3 “Now those who will be camping 1 on the east, toward the sunrise, 2 are the divisions 3 of the camp of Judah under their standard. The leader of the people of Judah is 4 Nahshon son of Amminadab. 2:4 Those numbered in his division 5 are 74,600.
Bilangan 26:22
Konteks26:22 These were the families of Judah according to those numbered of them, 76,500. 6
Bilangan 26:2
Konteks26:2 “Take a census of the whole community of Israelites, from twenty years old and upward, by their clans, 7 everyone who can serve in the army of Israel.” 8
1 Samuel 24:9
Konteks24:9 David said to Saul, “Why do you pay attention when men say, ‘David is seeking to do you harm’?
1 Samuel 24:2
Konteks24:2 So Saul took three thousand select men from all Israel and went to find 9 David and his men in the region of 10 the rocks of the mountain goats. 11
1 Samuel 17:14-16
Konteks17:14 Now David was the youngest. While the three oldest sons followed Saul, 17:15 David was going back and forth 12 from Saul in order to care for his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.
17:16 Meanwhile for forty days the Philistine approached every morning and evening and took his position.
[2:3] 1 tn The sentence begins with a vav (ו) on a word that is not a finite verb, indicating a new section begins here. The verbal form is a participle with the article used substantivally, with the meaning “and/now those camping.” Many English versions employ a finite verb; cf. KJV “on the east side…shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch.”
[2:3] 2 tc The two synonyms might seem to be tautological, but this is fairly common and therefore acceptable in Hebrew prose (cf. Exod 26:18; 38:13; etc.).
[2:3] 3 tn The sentence actually has “[those camping…are] the standard of the camp of Judah according to their divisions.”
[2:4] 5 tc The expression “and his divisions and those numbered of them” is somewhat tautological. The words are synonyms used for statistical purposes, and so neither should be simply deleted.
[26:22] 6 sn The Judahites increased from 74,600 to 76,500.
[26:2] 7 tn Heb “house of their fathers.”
[26:2] 8 tn Heb “everyone who goes out in the army in Israel.”
[24:2] 9 tn Heb “to search [for].”
[24:2] 10 tn Heb “upon the face of.”
[24:2] 11 tn Or “the region of the Rocks of the Mountain Goats,” if this expression is understood as a place name (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV, TEV, CEV).