20:15 So Ahab 7 assembled the 232 servants of the district governors. After that he assembled all the Israelite army, numbering 7,000. 8
1 tn Heb “spoke.”
2 tn Heb “two thousand baths” (a bath was a liquid measure roughly equivalent to six gallons).
3 tn Heb “was over.”
4 tc Some Greek
5 tn Heb “besides thirty-three hundred from the officials of Solomon’s governors who were over the work, the ones ruling over the people, the ones doing the work.”
5 tn Heb “I have kept in Israel seven thousand, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and all the mouths that have not kissed him.”
6 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “after them he assembled all the people, all the sons of Israel, seven thousand.”