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NASB | 2 Samuel 8:4 David captured from him 1,700 horsemen and 20,000 foot soldiers; and David hamstrung the chariot horses, but reserved enough of them for 100 chariots. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Samuel 8:4 David captured from him 1,700 horsemen and 20,000 foot soldiers. David also hamstrung all the chariot horses (making them lame), but reserved enough of them for a hundred chariots. |
Bible Question:
Hi meusing, Thank you! I could understand this as a copyist error. Based on other sources, the error is only 2 dots! However, it become more surprising to note that the scholars of the various translations had allowed this to pass through. There is some light to this, which I have yet see. Hope this may encourage more research on this. :) Regards David Yew Love - An intelligent willingness to do what is best for the other person. |
Bible Answer: Hi David, Even believing that there may have been a error in copying the Holy Writings, later copyists, and now tranlsators and publisher, do not want to change the text, but rather to leave it as they found it. Hebrew scribes have sometimes made marginal notations, called "glosses", indicating that they believed an error in copying had been made, but would not dare to introduce an intentional change. To me, this argues favorable toward the accurate transmission of the Bible. Even when an apparently obvious, easily correctable copyist error was discovered, they would not dream of changing it. Much more so with the remaining 99.999999999 percent of the text. Love in Christ, Mark |