1 Samuel 9 — Dead Sea Scrolls
1 attestation entry • 0 variants • 4QSamᵃ family
Manuscript Overview
Summary
1 Samuel 9 narrates Saul's search for his father's lost donkeys and his anointing by Samuel. 4QSamᵃ preserves portions with several agreements with LXX against MT — including the description of the seer/prophet relation in v. 9 (the parenthetical historical note) which has minor variant wording.
Notable Variants
Minor wording variants. The 'seer/prophet' parenthetical (v. 9) shows slight differences across witnesses but is substantively identical.
Manuscripts
4QSamᵃ (4Q51)
Scroll Condition
Moderate fragmentary attestation.
(In former times in Israel, when someone went to inquire of God, they would say, "Come, let us go to the seer" — because the one now called a prophet was formerly called a seer.)
The historical parenthesis ('formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said: come, let us go to the seer; for the prophet of today was formerly called a seer') tracks MT in substance.
fragmentary