3*'" is an ancient nnrrative, to some extent revised by R", wliose hand may be traced in vv.«-8«. 12. r4 i^jtkrases Nos. 2. 3. 8. 9. 57. 60. 63). Probably also v.", at least in its present form, is due to K", since if according to v.* ' the great hit;li place' was at Gibeon, it is diflicult to understand why Solomon should have returned to Jerusalem to oiler sacrifice, e.xcept from the Deuteroiioniic Btaiulpoint. The phnise 'ark of the covenant of J " is mainly a D expres.-iion. 3""^ is an old narrative in its original form.
4'-"', which gives a list of Solomon's officers of state, may be supposed to be derived from ' the book of the annals of Solomon.'
The list has received one later addition, viz. v.<b. The state- ment that 'Zadult and Abiattiar were priests' is no part of the re^.ster in it« nrii;inal form oja an otticial state document. This naturally hcod'-'i the list with the name of the hiph priest of the time, Azariuh, the son of Zodok. The insertion was made b^ Ho or by someone still earlier, who wished, as a matter of historical int4.Test, to notice that Zoilok and Abiathar were priests at the commencement of the reipn. It is noticeable that in this case only is there omission of the name of the father of any otticial. The sentence at the end of v.i^ should be emended, after Klostermann, |"J(<; lyx D'SJjrrSj Vj; nnx a'VJi 'and one otHcer was over all the officers who were in the land, the allusion beinj; to Azariah of v.^.
4»>-"(Heb. 4-»-5'-') appears in LXX (B, Luc.) in a form somewhat dillerunt from MT. 4^- -'■ '■"■ ^ and part of v.^ (' from Tiphsah . . . the river ') do nut appear, but are to be found in the addition at the end of ch. 2^". At the close of 4"* the te.\t con- tinues in the following order: — vv. -''•*•--"*'• '■*•■", after which follow ch. 3', ch. O"- "». Thus the commencement of v." ' And these officers pro- vided,' etc. (Ji n^'xn D'JViO '''t^Jl, not, as RV, 'and those officers,' etc.), hinges directly on to the section 4''"', which enumerates the ollicers and their respective districts. This explains nJ'Nn 'these' of v.", which is otherwise anom.ilous. There can be no question that the text of tlie section as pre- served by LXX is complete in itself, and bears the stamp of originality rather than the somewhat confused account of MT.
The dihturbinp factors in MT appear to have been w.*>. a. S5, • These, which contain no very precise infonnation, were added prolmlily not from a written source, but from oral tradi- tion, by a post-exilic scribe, who desireil reference to the happy times under Holomon's i^otden ai;e. The insertion led to the dislocation of vv.2r. af, caubini; them to be placed after vv.22- 2a. w. Prottably the same hand excerpteci the notice a1)ont Pharaoh's dautfhter and her dowry from its true position after v.-^, dividing it and placing' part at the t>e^nnin^ of cli. 3 (for the reason >;iven above, 32- 3), and part as a sequel to tlie mention of (Jezer in ch. 9'*.
5'-"" (Heb. S^-VM-t The main document, repre- sented by chs. 6. 7, appears to have been one, and was prohably derived from the temple nnhioe-s. 5'-' has been amplified bj' R" upon the lines of 2 S 7 (phrases, Nos, 10, 62). In 5" the idea and phra.«e ' as he promised him ' ( •'-i;-: -i:;t<;) are Deu- teroiiomic,t and thus the first half of this verse ought probably to be a.ssigned to !{".
In 5'»'" the relatioiishii. of the 70,000 •fSO.IMlO workmen to the 30,0(iO of 5" '♦ is obscure,§ and probably points to a ditVcrence of source. So Ewald and Stade ; the latter noticing that pjaS.n 'the Lebanon,' of V.'*, is in v." called ^ti ' the mountAin.'
The narrative of 0. 7 has lieen much worked over in post-exilic times. In 11' the exact coinci-
• 4'-* projierly beloni,ii to rh. 10, where It occurv in L.\X Od. Luc.) in connexion with vS^.
t r|i.>n the li^xl of Uiis siH-tion HtAde'i article, • Her Text des Derichli's uIht Malomos Itauten,' ZA '/'»', ISS3, p. 12U B., is most invaluable.
J Cf. I>t 1" 9 V» al. Driver {Cnnm. on Dmt. Ixxxl) cites from U fifteen occurrencN-s of (S> '• i;i 1cK2, besides Instances from the compiler of JudKes anil Joshua.
J Aet-«>rtlinir to 2 Ci) 2'*" the former consisted of 'Die Btrafigem Uiat were in the land of larmel.' Of this diffsrence, bowevvr, them Is no hint In ths tsxt of Kinvs.
dence in length of the period of 480 years from the Exodus to the coiuniencement of Solomon's temple, with the period which extends from this latter point to the return from the Exile, is scarcely acci- dental, and marks the verse as a post-exilic in.scr- tion. LXX places 6' betweenvv."™of 5, into which position it lias probably crept from tlie margin. In its place we have 6"- "*, which give the date ot laying the foundation of the temjile and of its completion. This position for these latter verses is acceiiled by Wellhausen {Cumpositifm, p. 267), though not by Stade. U' intrudes itself very awk- wardly into the midst of the account of the side chambers, and, if forming a jmrt of the original de.-icri|)tion, must, at any rate, be out of place. In 6=^ read, with LXX (B, Luc), Tar", .ijnnm 'the lowest,' in place of rt;:-p.rt ' the middle. 6" (omitting mnri D'd:, with B, Luc. ) ought to follow 6'".