For example the Books of Samuel and the Books of Kings are in the LXX one book in four parts called Βασιλειῶν (" Of Reigns ").

In the Greek Septuagint ( LXX ), Chronicles bears the title Paralipomenon (), i. e., " that which has been left out or left to one side ".

By extension the LXX always uses it to portray a rebellion against God ( Joshua 22: 22 ; 2 Chronicles 29: 19 ).

Note: the Greek Septuagint ( LXX ) of Genesis includes an additional son of Japheth, " Elisa ", in between Javan and Tubal ; however, as this name is found in no other ancient source, nor in I Chronicles, he is almost universally agreed to be a duplicate of Elisha, son of Javan.

The Greek ( LXX ) spelling in this passage is Archad.

The Septuagint ( Greek or ' LXX ') version of this book is, in its arrangement and in other particulars, different from the Masoretic Hebrew.

) is recognized in the Targum as well as the Chaldaic, Syriac, Arabic, LXX and Vulgate with all referencing the fighting rooster of fighting cock as the religious vessel.

The Septuagint () ( or " LXX ", or " Greek Old Testament ") is a translation of the Hebrew Bible and some related texts into Greek, begun in the late 3rd century BCE.

The Roman numeral LXX ( seventy ) is commonly used as an abbreviation, as are or G.

The Septuagint is also useful for elucidating pre-Masoretic Hebrew: many proper nouns are spelled out with Greek vowels in the LXX, while contemporary Hebrew texts lacked vowel pointing.

The Eastern Orthodox also use LXX untranslated where Greek is the liturgical language, e. g. in the Orthodox Church of Constantinople, the Church of Greece and the Cypriot Orthodox Church.

Critical translations of the Old Testament, while using the Masoretic Text as their basis, consult the Septuagint as well as other versions in an attempt to reconstruct the meaning of the Hebrew text whenever the latter is unclear, undeniably corrupt, or ambiguous .. For example, the Jerusalem Bible Foreword says, "... only when this ( the Masoretic Text ) presents insuperable difficulties have emendations or other versions, such as the ... LXX, been used.

The Song of Songs of Solomon, commonly referred to as Song of Songs ( Hebrew: Šîr haŠîrîm, LXX Greek: Aisma Aismatōn, Vulgate Latin: Cantĭcum Canticōrum ), or Song of Solomon, is a book of the Old Testament — one of the megillot ( scrolls )— found in the last section of the Tanakh, known as the Ketuvim ( or " Writings ").

A traditional Catholic view is that he is identical to the Ahasuerus of Daniel 9: 1 In the Codex Sinaiticus Greek ( LXX ) edition, the two names in this verse appear instead as one name, Ahikar ( also the name of another character in the story of Tobit ).

In about ninety instances, the LXX is literally quoted.

3: 19 ), from which Ehud turned back for the purpose of carrying out his design to put Eglon king of Moab to death, were probably the " graven images " ( as the word is rendered by the LXX.

The true biblical source of the usage however is ( six times Theodotion ; once indistinctly LXX.

* The Roman numeral seventy, LXX, is the scholarly symbol for the Septuagint.

In reference to an actual legendary or mythological creature, the term is found in the 1380s, in Wycliffe's Bible, translating ( LXX δαιμόνια, Latin pilosi ) in Isaiah 13: 21 The occurrences in Gawain and the Green Knight dates to shortly after Wycliffe's Bible, to ca.

Verse 12 is a quote of the LXX version of Is 3: 10 ; Is 3: 10 has been taken to refer to Jesus since the 1st-century Epistle of Barnabas.

Greek or, later " ointment, unguent, anointment " besides " oil, oil flask " and " fit to be anointed ", in LXX and NT " the anointed, Messiah ", " Christ ", is from a verb, ( long, later also short ; aorist, perfect ), " smear, anoint, rub or daub with oil or grease ".

In the LXX, Haman is called a ' Macedonian ' by Artaxerxes ( see Esther 16: 10 ).

However, in the Septuagint version ( LXX ), the 6th commandment is " Thou shalt not commit adultery ", and the seventh commandment is " Thou Shalt Not Steal ".

The name Zipporah in the Greek Old Testament ( LXX or Septuagint ) is rendered, Σεπφώρα Sephora.

The large majority of Old Testament references in the New Testament are taken from the Greek Septuagint ( LXX )— which includes the deuterocanonical books, as well as apocrypha — both of which are called collectively αναγιγνοσκόμενα anagignoskomena ( things that are read or " profitable reading ").

850, called Bavarian Geographer after its anonymous creator, mentions the Slavic tribe of Wolinians who then had 70 strongholds ( Uelunzani civitates LXX ).

An anonymous medieval document of about 850, called Bavarian Geographer, mentions the tribe of Prissani having 70 strongholds ( Prissani civitates LXX ).

One, represented in a minority of manuscripts, sometimes called the " Old Greek " version, seems to represent the Septuagint translation, evidently so unsatisfactory that the early Church opted to substitute Theodotion's version in its place, in the official copies of the LXX that have survived.

This would mean " to deliver ," based on the LXX rendering of Isaiah 19: 4a — a theory advanced by J. Alfred Morin.

The word is traditionally ( following LXX ) left untranslated ( ABC, ACV, AKJ, ASV, BBE, BIB, ESV, GNV, HNV, JPS, K21, KJG, KJR, KJV, NAB, NKJ, NRS, NWT, RSV, RWB, TMB, TNK, UPD, WEB, YLT, LXE, ZIK ), but some modern English Bible translations render it as " zodiac " ( AMP, CJB, EMP, LEE );

Michael W. Holmes points out that early Christian writers justified their use of this myth because the word appears in Psalm 92: 12 ( LXX Psalm 91: 13 ), but in that passage it actually refers to a palm tree, not a mythological bird.

What was perhaps most significant for the LXX, as distinct from other Greek versions, was that the LXX began to lose Jewish sanction after differences between it and contemporary Hebrew scriptures were discovered ( see above ).

12, see LXX ).

* Psalm 50 ( LXX ).

LXX ).

The ESV restored the majority of these traditional renderings, for example, the translation of the Hebrew almah ( maiden ) in Isaiah 7: 14 from " young woman " ( RSV, NRSV, REB, NAB ) to the traditional rendering of " virgin " ( ESV, NASB, NIV, supported by LXX, VG ).

" There ", he says, " we may behold the thorny crown, which was only set upon the head of Our Redeemer in order that all the thorns of the world might be gathered together and broken " ( Migne, LXX, 621 ).

Note: The ancient sound " MB " produces variations such as " Nimrod " ( Masoretic ) vs. " Nebrod " ( LXX ) and " Omri " ( M ) vs. " Ambri " ( LXX ).

The quote is from Isaiah 7: 14 with Matthew using the same wording as the Septuagint ( LXX ).

There is no record of what became of the Ark in the Books of Kings and Chronicles.

She became the mother of one of David's sons, who is listed in the Book of Chronicles under the name Daniel, in the Masoretic Text of the Books of Samuel as Chileab, and in the Septuagint text of 2 Samuel 3: 3 as Δαλουια, Dalouia.

The Books of Chronicles ( Hebrew Dibh're Hayyamim, דברי הימים, Greek Paralipomenon, ) are part of the Hebrew Bible.

Chronicles largely parallels the Davidic narratives in the Books of Samuel and the Books of Kings.

In some published editions of the Bible, 1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah have been presented together as a single book, for example, in The Modern Reader's Bible ( 1907 ) and The Books of the Bible ( 2007 ).

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This is supported by Zechariah's interest in the Temple and the priesthood, and from Iddo's preaching in the Books of Chronicles.

: Chronicler redirects here ; " the Chronicler " is a term used for the anonymous compiler of the Hebrew Books of Chronicles.

See Books of Chronicles.

The Books of Samuel, 1 Kings, and 1 Chronicles are the only sources of information on David, although the Tel Dan stele records " House of David ", which some take as confirmation of the existence in the mid-9th century BCE of a Judean royal dynasty called the " House of David ".

According to tradition, Ezra was the writer of the Books of Chronicles.

Though the Books of Kings and Books of Chronicles talk a great deal about the Assyrian empire, Nineveh itself is not again noticed till the days of Jonah, when it is described ( ff ; ) as an " exceedingly great city of three days journey in breadth ".

They are sometimes also divided into such categories as Sifrei Emet ( ספרי אמת, literally " Books of Truth ") of Psalms, Proverbs and Job ( the Hebrew names of these three books form the Hebrew word for " truth " as an acrostic, and all three books have unique cantillation marks ), the " wisdom books " of Job, Ecclesiastes, and Proverbs, the " poetry books " of Psalms, Lamentations and Song of Songs, and the " historical books " of Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles.

Of six novels published as " Infocom Books " by Avon Books between 1989 – 1991, four were directly based on Zork: The Zork Chronicles by George Alec Effinger ( 1990 ), The Lost City of Zork by Robin W. Bailey ( 1991 ), Wishbringer by Craig Shaw Gardner and Enchanter, also by Bailey.

This is supported by Zechariah's interest in the Temple and the priesthood, and from Iddo's preaching in the Books of Chronicles.

This story appeared only in The Silver Locusts, the British edition of The Martian Chronicles, the 1974 edition from The Heritage Press, the September 1979 illustrated trade edition from Bantam Books, the " 40th Anniversary Edition " from Doubleday Dell Publishing Group and in the 2001 Book-of-the-Month Club edition.

This story only appears in the 1974 edition of The Martian Chronicles by The Heritage Press, the 1979 Bantam Books illustrated trade edition, and the 1997 edition of The Martian Chronicles.

In his " Books " column for F & SF, Damon Knight listed The Martian Chronicles on his top-ten science fiction books of the 1950s.

According to the Books of Chronicles chapter 9 line 2, the Israelites, who took part in The Return to Zion are from the Tribe of Judah alongside the Tribe of Simeon that was absorbed into it, the Tribe of Benjamin, the Tribe of Levi ( Levites and Priests ) alongside the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, which according to the Book of Kings 2 Chapter 7 were exiled by the Assyrians ( The Biblical scholars Umberto Cassuto and Elia Samuele Artom claim these two tribes ' names to be a reference to the remant of all Ten Tribes that was not exiled and absorbed into the Judean population ).