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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comKeil and Delitzsch Commentary - 2 Samuel 15:21 - 15:21
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But Ittai replied with a solemn oath, “Assuredly at the place where my lord the king shall be (stay), whether for death or life, there will thy servant be.” אִם כִּי means “only,” as in Gen 40:14, Job 42:8; here, in a declaration on oath, it is equivalent to assuredly (vid., Ewald, §356, b.). The Chethib is therefore correct, and the erasure of אִם in the Keri is a bad emendation. The כִּי in the apodosis is either an emphatic declaration, yea, or like ὅτι merely introduces a distinct assertion.