Note 504 — Chapter VI · THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MONARCHY (continued 3)
Reading edition
It is called Abel-Maim, ‘Abel of the Waters,’ in 2 Chron. xvi. 4, compared with 1 Kings xv. 20. In 2 Sam. xx. 14, we should perhaps read, ‘And all the young warriors’ (bakhûrîm for bêrîm) ‘were gathered together,’ as the Septuagint has ‘all in Kharri,’ and the Vulgate ‘viri electi.’