Jer 49:1:
Milcom. He is the patron
god of Ammonmalkam. The Masoretic Text reads malkam, “their king,” but three
ancient versions show “Milcom,” and most modern scholars concur that this is
the correct reading. (Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible, 3 vols. [New York:
W. W. Norton & Company, 2019], 2:1017)
Jer 49:19:
I will rush him off from her. The
received text here is puzzling because what is envisaged is someone attacking
Edom. It is possible that the “him” refers to the fleeing inhabitant of Edom,
but it may be more likely that the initial mem of the preposition here
is a scribal error and that one should read ʾaleyha, “against her.”(Robert
Alter, The Hebrew Bible, 3 vols. [New York: W. W. Norton & Company,
2019], 2:1021)
