1 Samuel 18 — Dead Sea Scrolls
0 attestation entries • 0 variants • 4QSamᵃ family
Manuscript Overview
Summary
1 Samuel 18 continues the David-and-Saul cycle with the song of the women, Saul's spear-throwing, and Michal's marriage. The LXX again preserves a shorter form (omitting vv. 1–5, 10–11, 17–19); 4QSamᵃ's fragmentary support tends toward the longer MT form.
Notable Variants
Continuation of the chapter 17 textual question. LXX shorter form omits material; 4QSamᵃ's fragmentary readings support the longer MT-type text.
Manuscripts
4QSamᵃ (4Q51)
Scroll Condition
Sparse fragmentary attestation.
No substantial Qumran attestation has been published for this chapter beyond fragmentary scraps. The reconstructed Hebrew text matches the Masoretic Text.