But there are some suspicious cases in the parallel passages in 2 Samuel
22 and Psalm 18, where there is a WAYYIQTOL form in 2 Samuel but a plain
YIQTOL in the Psalm, or vice versa. It is at least possible that the
difference between these passages was originally the semantically minor
one between YIQTOL and WEYIQTOL, but at a later stage the WEYIQTOLs were
reinterpreted as WAYYIQTOLs. Indeed I wonder if all of the many
WAYYIQTOLs in this poem were originally WEYIQTOLs referring to general
or repeated events, but were later reinterpreted as WAYYIQTOLs to make
parts of this psalm sound like a narrative of a specific event. But this
must be highly speculative.
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