1 tn Heb “and look, a dream.”
2 tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”
3 tn Or “For.”
4 tn Heb “your inheritance.”
5 tn Heb “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead for war or should I refrain?”
6 tn Though Jehoshaphat requested an oracle from “the Lord” (יְהוָה, Yahweh), they stop short of actually using this name and substitute the title אֲדֹנָי (’adonai, “lord; master”). This ambiguity may explain in part Jehoshaphat’s hesitancy and caution (vv. 7-8). He seems to doubt that the four hundred are genuine prophets of the Lord.