2 Samuel 22 — Dead Sea Scrolls
0 attestation entries • 0 variants • 4QSamᵃ family
Manuscript Overview
Summary
2 Samuel 22 contains David's psalm of deliverance — paralleled at Psalm 18 with significant textual differences. 4QSamᵃ preserves portions; the parallel-vs-Samuel question is illuminated by DSS readings showing the Samuel text-form is generally more conservative than the Psalm 18 text-form.
Notable Variants
Variants align with the textual differences between Samuel-22 and Psalm-18, illuminating the textual relationship between the two parallel poems.
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.