Excerpt from Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel: With an Introduction on Hebrew Palaeography and the Ancient Versions and Facsimiles of Inscriptions and Maps A portion of the volume was already in type, when the loan of some ms. Notes of the late Prof. Duncan H. Weir, extending as far as 2 Sam. 4, 13 1, was offered to me. Know ing, from the extracts in Prof. Cheyne's [said/z the value of Dr. Weir's suggestions, I thankfully availed myself of the offer. The notes, I found, were less complete than I had expected; and though I gladly quoted from them what I could, I did not obtain from them as much assistance as I had hoped. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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