1 Samuel 26 — Dead Sea Scrolls
0 attestation entries • 0 variants • 4QSamᵃ family
Manuscript Overview
Summary
1 Samuel 26 narrates David's second sparing of Saul (parallel to chapter 24, often regarded as a doublet). 4QSamᵃ preserves fragments. The doublet question is not resolved by the DSS — both narratives are present in the same scroll, just as in MT.
Notable Variants
No significant variants. The DSS preserves both sparing narratives without merging or omitting either.
Manuscripts
4QSamᵃ (4Q51)
Scroll Condition
Fragmentary attestation.
No substantial Qumran attestation has been published for this chapter beyond fragmentary scraps. The reconstructed Hebrew text matches the Masoretic Text.