255 Saul’s Demise Two other units of the narrative dealing with David, and which are interwoven with the narrative block concerned with Saul’s end, mention David’s treatment of Amalek as well . The first describes his actions during his residence in Ziklag ( 1 Sam 27 ) : with the focus on his raids on the desert nomadic tribes—the Geshurites, the Girzites 30 and the Amalekites —“for those nations were of old ( MT : me ʿ wlam - the inhabitants of the land as you go towards Shur, up till the ) מעולם - land of Egypt” ( 27 : 8 ) . Several scholars have suggested, on the basis —of old ) should be מעולם ( of the Septuagint witnesses, that me ʿ wlam from the place name Telem or Telam mentioned in , ) מטלם ( read mt ִlm Josh 15 : 24 ( see e . g . H . P . Smith1951 : 237 ; McCarter 1980 b : 411 – 415 ; Gordon 1986 : 192 ) . This reading seems reasonable both on paleo - graphical grounds, in view of the similarity of the ancient letter shapes a ) , and on syntactical and logical grounds, since t...
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