This Is Appendix 32 From The Companion Bible.

The 134 Passages Where The Sopherim
Altered "Jehovah" to "Adonai".

by E.W. Bullinger

   Out of extreme (but mistaken) reverence for the Ineffable Name "Jehovah", the ancient custodians of the Sacred Text substituted in many places "Adonai" (see Appendix 4. viii. 2). These, in the Authorized Version and Revised Version, are all printed "Lord". In all these places we have printed it "LORD", marking the word with an asterisk in addition to the note in the margin, to inform the reader of the fact.
   The official list given in the Massorah (ยงยง 107-15, Ginsburg's edition) contains the 134.
   Genesis 18:3,27,30,32; 19:18 ; 20:4. Exodus 4:10,13; 5:22 ; 15:17; 34:9,9. Numbers 14:17 . Joshua 7:8. Judges 6:15; 13:8 . 1Kings 3:10,15; 22:6 . 2Kings 7:6; 19:23 . Isaiah 3:17,18; 4:4; 6:1,8,11 ; 7:14,20; 8:7; 9:8,17 ; 10:12; 11:11; 21:6,8,16 ; 28:2; 29:13; 30:20 ; 37:24; 38:14,16; 49:14 . Ezekiel 18:25,29; 21:13; 33:17,29 . Amos 5:16; 7:7,8; 9:1 . Zechariah 9:4. Micah 1:2. Malachi 1:12,14. Psalm 2:4; 16:2 ; 22:19,30; 30:8; 35:3,17,22 ; 37:12; 38:9,15,22; 39:7 ; 40:17; 44:23; 51:15 ; 54:4; 55:9; 57:9 ; 59:11; 62:12; 66:18 ; 68:11,17,19,22,26,32; 73:20; 77:2,7 ; 78:65; 79:12; 86:3,4,5,8,9,12,15 ; 89:49,50; 90:1,17; 110:5 ; 130:2,3,6. Daniel 1:2; 9:3,4,7,9,15,16,17,19,19,19 . Lamentations 1:14,15,15; 2:1,2,5,7,18,19,20 ; 3:31,36,37,58. Ezra 10:3. Nehemiah 1:11; 4:14. Job 28:28 .

   To these may be added the following, where "Elohim" was treated in the same way :-

   2Samuel 5:19-25; 6:9-17 } Where the Authorized Version has "L ORD ."
   1Chronicles 13:12; 14:10,11,14,16 ; 16:1. Psalm 14:1,2,5; 53:1,2,4,5 .} Where in Authorized Version and Revised Version it still appears as "God". It is printed "GOD" in the Companion Bible.

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