2. Other peculiar or rare expressions in these books are the proverbial ones : "(""pS 'j'^Pld'?, found only in them and in 1 Sam. xxv, 22, 34; "slept with his fathers." " him that dieth in the city the dogs shall eat " etc. • ^X n-rr;;' ns, l Kings ii, 23, etc.; also rflp, 1 Kings i, 41, 45; elsewhere only in poetry and in tlie composi- tion of proper names, except Dent, ii, 3G; Thn, i, 9. Also the following isolated terms: D'^'ia'ia, "fowl," iv, 23 ; nins, " stalls," V, G ; 2 Chron. Lx, 25 '; C^ n^rtl, v, 13 ; ix, 15, 21 ; "B'5, " a stone-quarry" (Gesenius), vi, 7; ■^2?^, vi, 17 ; "iPinb, 19 ; ti^t'^^'B and nis^'?, "wild cu- cumbers," vi, 18 ; vii, 24 ; 2 Kings iv, 39 ; tTip^, x, 28 ; the names of the 'months, D":rx, viii, 2 ; 1", ^^13, vi, 37, 38 ; X'12, " to invent," xii, 33 ; Neh. vi, 8, in both cases joined with 2^": ; T'^hz^, '• an idol," xv, 13 ; ^(^2 and "T^ran, followed by •'t?nN, "to destroy," xiv, 10; xvi, 3; xxi, 21; ti'^'^'^'l, '■•joints of the armor," xxii, 34; J'^O, "a pursuit," xviii, 27; IrtS, "to bend one's self," xviii, 42 ; 2 Kings iv, 34, 35 ; DSU, " to gird up," xviii, 40 ; 'nES. " a head-band," xx, 38, 42 ; pSlb, " to suiRce," XX, 10 ; Ilbn, inicert. signif., xx, 33 ; tir^lb'O flC", " to reign," xxi, 7; in'^n'3^, "a dish," 2 Kings ii, 20; ubt, " to fold up," ib. 8 ; "IJ^IS, " a herdsman," iii, 4 ; Amos i, 1; tj'l&N, "an oil-cup," iv, 2; PX Tin, " to have a caTG for," 13; l^^t, "to sneeze," 35; 'ibp:?, "a bag," 42; U"!"".!!, " a money-bag," v, 23 ; niinr, " a camp" (?), vi, 8; .TIS, "a feast," 23 ; Cipin?, " descending," 9 ; 2p," a cab," 25; C]"i;ii I'nri, " dove's dimg,"ib.; "i22p, perhaps " a fly-net," viii, 15 ; CiJ (in sense of " self," as i:i Chald. and Samar.), ix, 13: "1^2^, "a heap," x, 8; nnrib'^, "a vestry," 22; (IXiri";, "a draught-house," 27; 1-12, "Cherethites," xi, 4, 19, and 2 Sam. xx, 23 (kethib); ttS^, "a keeping off," xi, G; "12'2, "an ac- quaintance," xii, 6; the form ^T^, from tlT', "to shoot," xiii, 17; ri"12"i"lMil "132, "hostages," xiv, 14; 2 Chron. xxv, 24; f'^'C'EHrl ri"'2, "sick-house," XV, 5; 2 Chron. xxvi, 21 ; '2p, " before," xv, 10 ; p"^." w^I'1, " Damascus," xvi, 10 (perhaps only a false reading); rSlJ"!'^. "a pavement," xvi, 17; Tir^"^ or tjB'''?. "a covered way," xvi, 18; XSn, in Piel "to do secretly," xvii, 9; iT^-rX, Avith '^, 10, only besides Deut. vii, 5, IMic. v, 14 ; X'13, i. q. n'n:, xvii, 21 (kethib) ; n'^i'Tci", " Samaritans," 29 ; 'rrcn?, " Nehustan," xviii^4 ; ti:";X, " a piUar," 10 ; nw"i2 ilw", " to make peace," 31 ; Isa. xxxvi, 10 ; ^■^no, " that which grows up the third year," xix, 29 ; Isa. xxxvii, 30; VZi ^,"^2, " treasure-house," xx, 13; Isa. xxxix, 2; n3T^'!3,part of Jerusalem so called, xxi, 14; Zeph. i, 10; Neh. xi, 9; ri'l^"?, "signs of the zo- diac," xxiii, 5; ^TIQ, "a suburb," xxiii, 11; £"^2?, "ploughmen," xxv, 12 (kethib); XSd for |-;i"w\"to change," xxv, 9; rts^Xfor ^=''X,2 Kings vi,13; !^"5"=X, "meat,"l Kings xix, 8; C"i3"2bN;, "almug trees," 1 I'Lings X, 11, 12; ^t^^, "to stretch one's self," 1 Kings xviii, 42 ; 2 Kings iv, 34, 35 ; "IBN, a " turban" (" ashes"), 1 Kings xx.38,41; niia^, "floats," 1 Kings v, 9; t'^lj^, "chambers," 1 Kings vi, 5, 0, 10; rt2"'C, " clay," 1 Kings vii, 46 ; ''"CJS, "debt," 2 Kings iv, 7 ; ID, " heavy," 1 Kings XX, 43; xxi, 4, 5; T'nPS, "chapiter," only in Kings, Chronicles, and Jeremiah; rn"l^T"2, "snuffers," only in Kings, Chronicles, and Jeremiah ; n^irr, " base,"
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only in Kliigs, Chronicles, Jeremiah, and Ezra. To these may be added the architectural terms in 1 Kings vi, vii, and the names of foreign idols in 2 Kings xvii. The general character of the language is most distinctly that of the time before the Babylonian captivity.
VI. Variations in the Septuaf/iitt. — These are verj^ re- markable, and consist of transpositions, omissions, and some considerable additions, of all which Thenius gives some useful notices in his Introduction to the book of Kings.
1. The most important transpositions are the history of Shimei's death, 1 Kings ii, 3(3-46, which in the Sept. (Cod. Vat.) comes after iii, 1, and divers scraps from ch. iv, v, and ix, accompanied by one or two remarks of the translators. The sections 1 Ivings iv, 20-25, 2-0, 2G, 21, 1, are strung together and precede 1 Kings iii, 2-28, but many of them are repeated again in their proper places. Tlie sections 1 Kings iii, 1, ix, 16, 17, are strung togeth- er, and placed between iv, 34 and v, 1. The section 1 Kings vii, 1-12, is placed after vii, 51. Section viii, 12, 13, is placed after 53. Section ix, 15-22, is placed after X, 22. Section xi, 43, xii, 1, 2, 3, is much transposed and confused in Sept. xi, 43, 44, xii, 1-3. Section xiv, 1-21, is placed in the midst of the long addition to Chron. xii mentioned below. Section xxii, 42-50, is placed after xvi, 28. Chap, xx and xxi are transposed. Sec- tion 2 Kings iii, 1-3, is placed after 2 Kings i, 18.