Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Trevor Peterson <06PETERSON AT cua.edu>]

>===== Original Message From CS Bartholomew <jacksonpollock AT earthlink.net> 
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>Perhaps David's speech is just over the body of the man
>and addressed to someone else?

That's how I would take it. I don't think we need to think too hard to come 
up 
with examples where this sort of thing is done for dramatic effect. Even if 
no 
one else in the story hears it, David and the reader do. Personally, I feel 
better about this sort of reading than trying to monkey with the regular flow 
of the verb forms.

Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics