2 Samuel 12:31 [2Kings 12:31 LXX]

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Thu Dec 16 15:40:00 EST 1999


This question began on b-hebrew, but I am seeking some insights now into
the LXX Greek rendition.  Just what did David do to the war captives of
Rabbah?  Particularly, the part about making them "pass through the
brick-kiln,"  DIAGAGEN AUTOUS DIA TOU PLINQOIU in the LXX.  I do not
have a lexicon for the LXX  (though I corrected that oversight with an
online order today), and the word does not appear in the Greek NT, so I
do not know all the possible meanings for PLINQIOS.  The Hebrew text has
"malben," which some scholars contend means, not a brick kiln where
bricks are burned,  but rather,  a brick mold, a wooden frame anciently
used for shaping bricks.  Correspondingly, they translate that David put
the captive people to work making bricks, not torching them in a brick
kiln.

I was just wondering if the LXX reading sheds any light on what the
Hebrew "malben" was.

Solomon Landers
Memra Institute for Biblical Research
http://www.memrain.org




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