¹ tn Heb “feared.”

² tn Heb “feared.”

¹ tn Heb “feared.”

¹ tn Heb “feared.”

⁴ tn Heb “feared.”

³ tn Heb “had feared.”

¹ tn Or “feared above.”

³ tn Or perhaps “feared by.”

⁴ tn Heb “and the people feared.”

¹ tn Heb “feared,” perhaps in the sense, “stood in awe of.”

⁴ tn Heb “has feared the Lord” (also see the note at 1 Kgs 18:3).

¹ tn Or perhaps “and feared by all gods.” See Ps 89:7.

³ tn Heb “But Uriah heard and feared and fled and entered Egypt.”

⁵ tn Heb “and the people feared from before the Lord”; NASB “showed reverence for the Lord.”

⁵ tn The verb “feared” is intensified by the adverb מְאֹד (mÿ’od): “they feared greatly” or “were terrified.” In one look their defiant boldness seems to have evaporated.

¹ tn Heb “and they [fem. pl.] feared”; the referent (the midwives) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² sn That is, “If you really feared me you should have done a minimum to get what I asked for.”

⁴ tn Grk “they feared a great fear” (a Semitic idiom which intensifies the main idea, in this case their fear).

¹ tn That is, “If you really feared me why did you not do a minimum to get what I asked for?”

¹ tn Heb “now Obadiah greatly feared the Lord.” “Fear” refers here to obedience and allegiance, the products of healthy respect for the Lord’s authority.