1 Samuel 5 — Dead Sea Scrolls
0 attestation entries • 0 variants • 4QSamᵃ family
Manuscript Overview
Summary
1 Samuel 5 narrates the humiliation of Dagon and the plagues on the Philistines while they hold the ark. 4QSamᵃ has minor variants matching LXX, especially in the description of the plagues.
Notable Variants
Minor wording variants in the plague description; no theologically significant departures.
Manuscripts
4QSamᵃ (4Q51)
Scroll Condition
4QSamᵃ preserves fragmentary text.
No substantial Qumran attestation has been published for this chapter beyond fragmentary scraps. The reconstructed Hebrew text matches the Masoretic Text.