Biblical Hebrew Forum

[David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>]

Karl,

You might want to have a look at:

Wenham, Gordon J. "Were David's Sons Priests?" ZAW 87 (1975): 79-82.

Armerding, Carl Edwin. "Were David's Sons Really Priests?" Pages 75-86 
in Current Issues in Biblical and Patristic Interpretation: Studies in 
Honor of Merrill C. Tenny Presented by his Former Students. Edited by G. 
F. Hawthorne. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975.

I read them a number of years ago now, but can't recall the details.

Regards,
David Kummerow.


> B-Hebrew haberim:
>
> 1 Samuel 8:18 has puzzled me for years, as it seems
> to say that David, a man after God's own heart, was
> violating God's command that the priesthood be
> limited to the descendants of Aaron and conferring
> it to his sons. Even the pointing indicates that
> reading.
>
> I don't think this reading is right.
>
> The LXX gives a reading that, from parsing the
> word, seems to say that David's sons were in charge
> of accounting or something like that.
>
> Are there any variant readings that would indicate
> a different meaning?
>
> Could a different set of dots give the meaning that
> David's sons became as those in charge of the
> resources, i.e. accounting the wealth of the booty
> and country?
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Karl W. Randolph.