³ tn Heb “thirty cubits.”

⁵ tn Heb “thirty cubits.”

³ tn Heb “thirty cubits.”

¹ tn Heb “a son of thirty years.”

³ tn Heb “thirty cubits” (i.e., 15.75 meters).

¹ tn Heb “thirty daughters he sent off outside.” Another option is to translate, “He arranged for his thirty daughters…” It is not clear if he had more than the “thirty daughters” mentioned in the text.

¹ tn Heb “That [was the] Benaiah [who was] a warrior of the thirty and over the thirty, and his division, Ammizabad his son.”

¹ tn Heb “all the lives of his sons and his daughters, thirty-three.”

² tn Heb “and thirty daughters he brought for his sons from the outside.”

⁴ tn Heb “and a measuring line went around it thirty cubits all around.”

² tc The marginal reading (Qere) has “officers;” the consonantal text (Kethib) has “the Thirty” (see v. 15).

⁴ tn Heb “and thirty-six hundred [as] supervisors to compel the people to work.”

⁴ tn Heb “and a measuring line went around it thirty cubits all around.”

¹ tn Grk “who had had thirty-eight years in his disability.”

⁴ tc The parallel text of MT in 1 Kgs 5:16 has “thirty-six hundred,” but some Greek mss there read “thirty-six hundred” in agreement with 2 Chr 2:2, 18.

¹ tc The Syriac reads “thirty” here and at the beginning of v. 21; this reading is followed by some English translations (cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV, NLT).

¹ tn Heb “and Jehoiada grew old and was full of days and died; [he was] one hundred thirty years old when he died.”

¹ tn Thirty-nine of the forty-eight biblical occurrences of this Hebrew word are found in the book of Ezekiel.

¹ tn Grk “about twenty-five or thirty stades” (a stade as a unit of linear measure is about 607 feet or 187 meters).

² tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading שְׁלֹשָׁה (shÿloshah, “three”) rather than the Kethib of the MT שְׁלֹשִׁים (shÿloshim, “thirty”). “Thirty” is due to dittography of the following word and makes no sense in the context.