2Sa 2:10 | TSK | e4.org | two years Houbigant proposes to read shesh shanah , "six years" instead of shetayim shanim , "two years," of the text, which he contends is a solecism; for, in pure Hebrew, the words should be shetayim shanah ; and this is the reading of twenty manuscripts; but two is acknowledged by all the versions and manuscripts yet collated.

‏ 2 Samuel 2:10

two years Houbigant proposes to read shesh shanah, "six years" instead of shetayim shanim, "two years," of the text, which he contends is a solecism; for, in pure Hebrew, the words should be shetayim shanah; and this is the reading of twenty manuscripts; but two is acknowledged by all the versions and manuscripts yet collated. 2Sam 2:10