2 Samuel 11 — Dead Sea Scrolls
0 attestation entries • 0 variants • 4QSamᵃ family
Manuscript Overview
Summary
2 Samuel 11 narrates David's adultery with Bathsheba and the murder of Uriah. The chapter is one of the most theologically and morally weighty in the OT. 4QSamᵃ preserves portions with no significant variants — the narrative is preserved across all witnesses without softening.
Notable Variants
No significant variants. The DSS preserves David's sin in full, just as the MT does.
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.