Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Dale M. Wheeler" <dalemw AT teleport.com>]

Fellow bhebrew'ers:

I was looking at 1 Sam 19:1 this morning and came across DBR followed by an 
Infinitive Construct with L.  My first inclination was to read the 
infinitive clause as an indirect discourse clause (where the original 
statement was an imperative or cohortative), but I couldn't remember any 
grammars ever listing such a function for the infinitive construct (I later 
checked W-O'C, GKC, DHS and found nothing).

The NIV, and most others evidently (!?!) understand it as an indirect 
discourse clause: "Saul told his son Jonathan and all the attendants to 
kill David.", but I'm not exactly sure what the NRSV thinks is going on 
syntactically:  "Saul spoke with his son Jonathan and with all his servants 
about killing David."

Would Deut 1:14; 19:8; 2Ki 14:27 be other examples of Indirect Discourse 
after DBR ?


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Dale M. Wheeler, Ph.D.
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