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2 Samuel at Qumran / Chapter 21

2 Samuel 21 — Dead Sea Scrolls

0 attestation entries • 0 variants • 4QSamᵃ family

Manuscript Overview

Summary

2 Samuel 21 contains the famine and the giving up of Saul's descendants to the Gibeonites — one of the most morally difficult chapters in Samuel. 4QSamᵃ preserves portions with no significant content variants.

Notable Variants

Minor variants only.

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.