1 Samuel 8 — Dead Sea Scrolls
0 attestation entries • 0 variants • 4QSamᵃ family
Manuscript Overview
Summary
1 Samuel 8 contains the people's request for a king and Samuel's warning ('the manner of the king'). 4QSamᵃ preserves fragments with minor variants matching LXX.
Notable Variants
Minor wording differences in the king-warning speech.
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.