David answered, Behold the spear, O king! let then one of the young men come over and get it.
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David answered, Behold the spear, O king! let then one of the young men come over and get it.
And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear! and let one of the young men come over and fetch it.
And David answered and said, “Behold the spear of the king! Now let one of the young men pass over and take it.
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David answered, Behold the spear, O king! let then one of the young men come over and get it.
“Here is the king’s spear,” David answered. “Let one of the young men come over and get it.
“Here is the king’s spear,” David answered. “Let one of the young men come over and get it.
And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear! and let one of the young men come over and fetch it.
And David answered and said, Behold the spear, O king! let then one of the young men come over and fetch it.
And David answered and said, Behold the spear, O king! let then one of the young men come over and fetch it.
Then Dauid answered, and saide, Beholde the Kings speare, let one of the yong men come ouer and set it.
And David answering, said: Behold the king's spear: let one of the king's servants come over and fetch it.
And David answereth and saith, `Lo, the king's spear; and let one of the young men pass over, and receive it;
And David answers and says, “Behold, the king’s spear; and let one of the young men pass over, and receive it;
David answered and said, “See, your spear is here, king! Let one of the young men come over and get it and bring it to you.
And David answered and said, “Behold the spear of the king! Now let one of the young men pass over and take it.
And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear, and let one of the young men come over and fetch it.
David answered, “Behold the spear, O king! Let one of the young men come over and get it.
And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear! and let one of the young men come over and take it.
“I have the king's spear here,” said David. “Send one of your men over to collect it.
Then David said, Here is the king's spear! let one of the young men come over and get it.
And David answered and said: 'Behold the king's spear! let then one of the young men come over and fetch it.
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Shared distinctive vocabulary
החנית spear H2595 occurs in 40 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 21 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 11 Hebrew tokens and 17 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.
וַיַּ֤עַן דָּוִד֙ וַיֹּ֔אמֶר הִנֵּ֖ה החנית חֲנִ֣ית הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וְיַעֲבֹ֛ר אֶחָ֥ד מֵֽהַנְּעָרִ֖ים וְיִקָּחֶֽהָ
David answered, Behold the spear, O king! let then one of the young men come over and get it.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ἀποκρίνω δαυίδ καί εἶπον ἰδού ὁ δόρυ ὁ βασιλεύς διαἔρχομαι εἷς ὁ παιδάριον καί λαμβάνω αὐτός
And David answered and said, Behold, the spear of the king: let one of the servants come over and take it.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וַאֲתֵיב דָוִד וַאֲמַר הָא מוּרְנִיתָא דְמַלְכָּא וְיֶעְבַּר חַד מֵעוּלֵמַיָא וְיִסְבָהּ:
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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 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 11 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is chănîyth (“spear”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Samuel 26:22 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.
Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
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.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
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.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.