21:4 Jehoram took control of his father’s kingdom and became powerful. 6 Then he killed all his brothers, 7 as well as some of the officials of Israel.
26:9 Uzziah built and fortified towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, Valley Gate, and at the Angle. 14
1 tn Heb “3,000 baths” (note that the capacity is given in 1 Kings 7:26 as “2,000 baths”). A bath was a liquid measure roughly equivalent to six gallons (about 22 liters), so 3,000 baths was a quantity of about 18,000 gallons (66,000 liters).
2 tn Or “strengthened.”
3 tn Or “strengthened.”
4 tn Heb “they walked in the way of.”
3 tn Heb “lifted up for himself.”
4 tn Heb “and Jehoram arose over the kingdom of his father and strengthened himself.”
5 tn Heb “and he killed all his brothers with the sword.”
5 tn Heb “cause you to stumble.”
6 tn Heb “to cause to stumble.”
6 tn Heb “and Amaziah strengthened himself and led his people and went to the Valley of Salt.”
7 tn Or “struck down.”
8 tn Heb “sons of Seir.”
7 tn Heb “and his name went to.”
8 tn On the meaning of the Hebrew word מִקְצוֹעַ (miqtsoa’), see HALOT 628 s.v. עַ(וֹ)מִקְצֹ. The term probably refers to an “angle” or “corner” somewhere on the eastern wall of Jerusalem.
9 tn Or perhaps, “and don’t be discouraged.”
10 tn Heb “for with us [is] a greater [one] than with him.”