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NASB | 2 Samuel 21:19 There was war with the Philistines again at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Samuel 21:19 There was war with the Philistines again at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a Bethlehemite, killed Goliath the Gittite, whose spear shaft was like a weaver's beam. |
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Bible Note: Good stuff, Makarios. Interesting that the NASB and KJV translate Jer 3.16 "neither shall it come to mind", where the Hebrew "labe" is more correctly "heart": "neither shall it come to heart", which strikes a deeper chord. I wouldn't have known this without the LITV, which is a double expresso literal translation in the TR Greek. I like literalness, a harder thing to be, I think, and the NASB is, to me, clearly less literal than the KJV: "thou hast possessed my reins," ("reins" is literally "kidneys") from Psalm 139.13, for ex., gives insight into the conceptual idiom of the day. But you're right about multiple sources, and the NASB is revelatory on some of the epistles. Compare 1 Tim 6.6: 1Ti 6:6 "But godliness actually is a means of great gain when accompanied by contentment." (NASB), versus "1Ti 6:6 "But godliness with contentment is great gain." (KJV). In the latter, the importance of "contentment" is marginally overshadowed by the brevity of the sentence, whereas in the former a door is flung open into its deep relation to faith. How can you have true contentment without faith? Stuff like that just keeps me hanging on to the NASB, know what I mean, Makarios? Good talking to you, amigazo. Colin |