Samgar-nebo (Hastings' Dictionary)

An officer of Nebu- chadnH/z;ir, who, according to the MT of Jer 39 [Ur. 46]', took his seat, along ^vith other princes, in the middle gate of Jerusalem after the Chal- diEsn army had forced its way into the city. If the name (LXX Bx Za/iayud, A Eliraafiayid) is to be accepted, it may he = Stimgir-Anbu, ' be gra- cious, O Nebo ' (Schrader, COT ii. 109).

* The text has in any case sutiered corruption, as is evident, apart from other considerations, from the multi- tude of variant readings exhibited (cf. Swete, OT in Greek, ad loc.) by the LXX. If we retain the name Samgar-nebo, we ought perhaps to drop the first ' Nergal-sharezer,' and read : ' Samgar-nebo the Sar-sechim [a title as yet unexplained], Nebu- shazban the Rab-saris [cf. v."]and Nergal-sharezer tlieKab-mag' (so Sayce in art. Nekgal-Sharezek above).

Another course la to reject (with Uiese- breclit) the name Samgar, nebo entirely, taking "uoo as a dittography of jd 2i, and joining uj to the following, CDanijuj thus = [jiptn} of v." It must be confessed that the means are not yet at our disposal for pronouncing with confidence on the true text, bee, for another expedient, art. Bak.?i.ciii.\i. J. a. Selbie.