² tn Heb “I will add to discipline you seven [times] on your sins.”

² tn Heb “your blow, stroke”; cf. TEV “punishment”; NLT “I will inflict you with seven more disasters.”

¹ tn Heb “the seven weeks.” The translation uses a pronoun to avoid redundancy in English.

² tn Heb “wrote down for him the officials of Succoth and its elders, seventy-seven men.”

¹ tn Heb “besides from the ones living in Gibeah they mustered seven hundred choice men.”

¹ tn Heb “on the eighth day” (that is, the day after the second seven-day sequence).

² tn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about seven quarts.

² tn Heb “after them he assembled all the people, all the sons of Israel, seven thousand.”

² tn Heb “he took with him seven hundred men, who drew the sword, to break through against.”

¹ tc The parallel text of 2 Sam 10:18 has “seven hundred.”

³ tn Heb “in the beginning.” This refers to the vision described in chapter seven.

² sn According to Jewish intertestamental literature (such as 1 En. 20), Michael was one of seven archangels.

⁵ sn On seven stars in his right hand see 1:16.

⁷ sn See the note on the phrase the seven spirits of God in Rev 4:5.

² tn The text literally has “and seven days were filled.” Seven days gave Pharaoh enough time to repent and release Israel. When the week passed, God’s second blow came.

³ tn “Seven days” is an adverbial accusative of time. The ritual of ordination is to be repeated for seven days, and so they are to remain there in the court in full dress.

⁷ tc The LXX adds “Girgashites” here at the end of the list in order to list the full (and usual) complement of seven (see note on “seven” in Deut 7:1).

² tn Heb “Solomon held at that time the festival, and all Israel was with him, a great assembly from Lebo Hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God for seven days and seven days, fourteen days.”

¹ tn The word for “seven” is spelled in an unusual way. From this some have thought it means “twice seven,” or fourteen sons. Several commentators take this view; but it is probably not warranted.

⁴ tn Heb “and he loved also Rachel, more than Leah, and he served with him still seven other years.”