Discovery Box| (0.46074659615385) | (Jos 6:3) |
1 tn Heb “and go around the city, all [you] men of war, encircling the city one time.” The Hebrew verb וְסַבֹּתֶם (vÿsabbotem, “and go around”) is plural, being addressed to the whole army. |
| (0.46074659615385) | (Jos 13:4) |
3 tc The reading “Arah” assumes a slight emendation of the Hebrew vowel pointing. The MT reads, “and a cave,” or “and Mearah” (if one understands the word as a proper noun). |
| (0.46074659615385) | (Jdg 2:19) |
3 sn The statement the next generation would again act more wickedly than the previous one must refer to the successive sinful generations after Joshua, not Joshua’s godly generation (cf. vv. 7, 17). |
| (0.46074659615385) | (Jdg 7:5) |
2 tn Heb “Everyone who laps with his tongue from the water, as a dog laps, put him by himself, as well as the one who gets down on his knees to drink.” |
| (0.46074659615385) | (Jdg 9:8) |
1 tn Heb “Going they went, the trees.” The precise emphatic force of the infinitive absolute (“Going”) is not entirely clear. Perhaps here it indicates determination, as in Gen 31:30, where one might translate, “You have insisted on going away.” |
| (0.46074659615385) | (Jdg 9:29) |
3 tn Heb “said to Abimelech.” On the other hand, the preposition ל (lamed) prefixed to the proper name may be vocative (see R. G. Boling, Judges [AB], 178). If so, one could translate, “He boasted, ‘Abimelech…’” |
| (0.46074659615385) | (Jdg 11:10) |
1 tn Heb “The |
| (0.46074659615385) | (Jdg 18:19) |
2 tn Heb “Is it better for you to be priest for the house of one man or for you to be priest for a tribe, for a clan in Israel?” |
| (0.46074659615385) | (Rut 2:17) |
2 sn This was a huge amount of barley for one woman to gather in a single day. It testifies both to Ruth’s industry and to Boaz’s generosity. |
| (0.46074659615385) | (1Sa 9:3) |
3 tc The Syriac Peshitta includes the following words: “So Saul arose and went out. He took with him one of the boys and went out to look for his father’s donkeys.” |
| (0.46074659615385) | (1Sa 17:36) |
1 tc The LXX includes here the following words not found in the MT: “Should I not go and smite him, and remove today reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised one?” |
| (0.46074659615385) | (2Sa 8:4) |
1 tc The LXX has “one thousand chariots and seven thousand charioteers,” a reading adopted in the text of the NIV. See the parallel text in 1 Chr 18:4. |
| (0.46074659615385) | (2Sa 15:8) |
1 tn Heb “for your servant vowed a vow.” The formal court style of referring to one’s self in third person (“your servant”) has been translated here as first person for clarity. |
| (0.46074659615385) | (2Sa 22:2) |
1 tn Traditionally “is my rock”; CEV “mighty rock”; TEV “is my protector.” This metaphor pictures God as a rocky, relatively inaccessible summit, where one would be able to find protection from enemies. See 1 Sam 23:25, 28. |
| (0.46074659615385) | (2Sa 22:33) |
2 tc 4QSama has מְאַזְּרֵנִי (mÿ’azzÿreni, “the one girding me with strength”) rather than the MT מָעוּזִּי (ma’uzzi, “my refuge”). See as well Ps 18:32. |
| (0.46074659615385) | (2Sa 22:36) |
2 tc Ps 18:35 contains an additional line following this one, which reads “your right hand supports me.” It may be omitted here due to homoioarcton. See the note at Ps 18:35. |
| (0.46074659615385) | (1Ki 1:47) |
4 tn Heb “make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne.” The term שֵׁם (shem, “name”) is used here of one’s fame and reputation. |
| (0.46074659615385) | (1Ki 1:48) |
2 tn Or “Blessed be the |
| (0.46074659615385) | (1Ki 3:18) |
1 sn There was no one else in the house except the two of us. In other words, there were no other witnesses to the births who could identify which child belonged to which mother. |
| (0.46074659615385) | (1Ki 5:3) |
1 tn Heb “a house for the name of the |
