03-17-2019, 03:13 AM
Josephus Book 6 chapter 5, and the Dead Sea Scrolls 1 Samuel end of 10 or at start of 11, have material absent from the Masoretic, Peshitta Tanakh, and LXX.
1 Samuel 10 (NRSV), https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se...rsion=NRSV
27 But some worthless fellows said, “How can this man save us?” They despised him and brought him no present. But he held his peace.
Now Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had been grievously oppressing the Gadites and the Reubenites. He would gouge out the right eye of each of them and would not grant Israel a deliverer. No one was left of the Israelites across the Jordan whose right eye Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had not gouged out. But there were seven thousand men who had escaped from the Ammonites and had entered Jabesh-gilead.[i]
Footnotes:
i: 1 Samuel 10:27 Q Ms Compare Josephus, _Antiquities_ VI.v.1 (68–71): MT lacks _Now Nahash . . . entered Jabesh-gilead._
1 Samuel 10 (NRSV), https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se...rsion=NRSV
27 But some worthless fellows said, “How can this man save us?” They despised him and brought him no present. But he held his peace.
Now Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had been grievously oppressing the Gadites and the Reubenites. He would gouge out the right eye of each of them and would not grant Israel a deliverer. No one was left of the Israelites across the Jordan whose right eye Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had not gouged out. But there were seven thousand men who had escaped from the Ammonites and had entered Jabesh-gilead.[i]
Footnotes:
i: 1 Samuel 10:27 Q Ms Compare Josephus, _Antiquities_ VI.v.1 (68–71): MT lacks _Now Nahash . . . entered Jabesh-gilead._