1 tn Heb “he made an alliance with him.”
2 tn Heb “make ships to go to Tarshish.” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish; a “Tarshish-ship” was essentially a large seagoing merchant ship.
3 tn Heb “fear.”
4 tn Heb “by walking in your ways.”
5 tn Heb “all the days [in] which.”
5 tn Heb “and Amaziah separated them, the troops who came to him from Ephraim, to go to their place.”
7 tn Heb “when.”
8 tn Heb “to go to Tarshish.”
9 tc This assumes an emendation to עַמּוּדוֹ (’ammudo), see 23:13. The MT reads “at his place.”
10 tn Heb “cut,” that is, “made” or “agreed to.”
11 tn Heb “walk after.”
12 tn Or “soul.”
13 tn Heb “words.”
11 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from before me sitting on the throne of Israel.”
12 tn Heb “guard their way by walking in my law as you have walked before me.”