Verse 3
(3) Answered.—Hebrew, said.
The Lord . . . as they be.—Literally, Jehovah add upon his people like them an hundred times, an
abridged form of what is read in Samuel.
But, my lord the king, are they not . . .?—Instead of this, Samuel records another wish, “And may the eyes of my lord the king be seeing,” that is, living (Genesis 16:13).
Why then doth my lord require this thing?—So Samuel, in slightly different terms: “And my lord the king, why desireth he this proposal?”
Why will he be (why should he become) a cause of trespass to Israel?—Not in Samuel. It is an explanatory addition by the chronicler.
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