1 Chronicles 11:37

Verse 37. Hesro ends with u in the Hebrew Yet some read more properly with i, “Hetzrai,” as all the ancient versions have it, except the Vulg. (Ken.) some copies of which read Asra. Blanchini, Vind. 1740.—Carmelite. Septuagint καρμηδι. The Δ might easily be mistaken for Λ, as the Greek bibles (Ken.) for some ages after Origen were written in capital letters, without accents. Montfaucon, Pref. to Hexap. p. 44.—Azbai seems preferable to Arbi, as the proper name seems also more correct than Pharai. 2 Kennicott. Bible.—The Vat. Septuagint confounds both words in one “Ouraiverchi.” We may apply to many of the proper names that severe censure which S. Jerom has passed upon the transcribers of the book of Chronicles. Ita in Græcis & Latinis cod: hic nominum liber vitiosus est, ut non tam Hebræa quam Barbara quædam & Sarmatica nomina conjecta arbitrandum eit, and so forth ep. ad Domn. If this epistle be not genuine, the same doctor complains at least of the incorrect state of the Septuagint Pref. in Paral.