Their father said to them, Which way did he go? Now his sons had seen which way the man of God went, who came from Judah.
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Their father said to them, Which way did he go? Now his sons had seen which way the man of God went, who came from Judah.
And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah.
And their father spoke to them, “Where this, the road he walked?” Now his sons had seen the road that the man of God had walked who had come from Judah.
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Their father said to them, Which way did he go? Now his sons had seen which way the man of God went, who came from Judah.
“Which way did he go?” their father asked. And his sons showed him the way taken by the man of God, who had come from Judah.
“Which way did he go?” their father asked. And his sons showed him the way taken by the man of God, who had come from Judah.
And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah.
And their father said unto them, What way went he? Now his sons had seen what way the man of God went, that came from Judah.
And their father said unto them, What way went he? Now his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah.
And their father sayde vnto them, What way went he? and his sonnes shewed him what waye the man of God went, which came from Iudah.
And their father said to them: What way went he? His sons shewed him the way by which the man of God went, who came out of Juda.
And their father saith unto them, `Where `is' this -- the way he hath gone?' and his sons see the way that the man of God hath gone who came from Judah.
And their father says to them, “Where [is] this—the way he has gone?” And his sons see the way that the man of God who came from Judah has gone.
Their father said to them, “Which way did he go?” Now his sons had seen the way the man of God from Judah had gone.
And their father spoke to them, “Where this, the road he walked?” Now his sons had seen the road that the man of God had walked who had come from Judah.
And their father said to them, Which way went he? for his sons had seen which way the man of God went, who came from Judah.
Their father said to them, “Which way did he go?” Now his sons had seen which way the man of God went, who came from Judah.
And their father said to them, What way went he? for his sons had seen what way the man of God went, who came from Judah.
“Which way did he go?” their father asked them. So his sons showed him the way taken by the man of God from Judah.
Then their father said to them, Which way did he go? Now his sons had seen which way the man of God who came from Judah had gone.
And their father said unto them: 'What way went he?' For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, that came from Judah.
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Shared distinctive vocabulary
אֵֽי where H335 occurs in 36 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 26 words from the Hebrew and 31 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 18 Hebrew tokens and 30 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וַיְדַבֵּ֤ר אֲלֵהֶם֙ אֲבִיהֶ֔ם אֵֽי זֶ֥ה הַדֶּ֖רֶךְ הָלָ֑ךְ וַיִּרְא֣וּ בָנָ֗יו אֶת הַדֶּ֨רֶךְ֙ אֲשֶׁ֤ר הָלַךְ֙ אִ֣ישׁ הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים אֲשֶׁר בָּ֖א מִיהוּדָֽה
Their father said to them, Which way did he go? Now his sons had seen which way the man of God went, who came from Judah.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί λαλέω πρός αὐτός ὁ πατήρ αὐτός λέγω ποῖος ὁδός πορεύομαι καί δεικνύω αὐτός ὁ υἱός αὐτός ὁ ὁδός ἐν ὅς ἀναἔρχομαι ὁ ἄνθρωπος ὁ θεός ὁ ἔρχομαι ἐκ ιουδα
And their father spoke to them, saying, Which way went he? and his sons show him the way by which the man of God who came out of Juda went up.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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וּמַלֵיל לְהוֹן אֲבוּהוֹן בְּאֵי דָא אוֹרְחָא אֲזַל וְאַחֲזִיאוּ בְנוֹהִי יַת אוֹרְחָא דַאֲזַל נְבִיָא דַייָ דַאֲתָא מִשִׁבְטָא דִיהוּדָה:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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1 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 18 words (15 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼay (“where”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Kings 13:12 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.