¹ tn Heb “head” or “top.”

³ tn Heb “top” (singular).

¹ tn Heb “on top,” or “above.”

² tn Heb “and threw them from the top of the cliff.”

² tn Heb “on,” meaning “on top of, in addition to” (likewise in v. 15).

¹ tn Heb “if I do not lift up Jerusalem over the top of my joy.”

³ sn (Not) one stone on top of another is an idiom for total destruction.

¹ tn Grk “worshiped on the top of his staff,” a quotation from Gen 47:31 (LXX).

² tn Heb “in it.” In this context “in it” apparently refers to the “hearth” which was on top of the altar.

¹ sn That is, on top of the flat roof of the palace, so it would be visible to the public.

¹ tc The parallel text of 1 Kgs 10:19 has instead “and the back of it was rounded on top.”

² tn Or “dross.” The word refers to the scum or impurites floating on the top of melted metal.

² tn The Hebrew term occurs elsewhere only in Judg 9:37. Perhaps it means “high point, top.”

¹ tn Heb “in it,” apparently referring to the “hearth” which was on top of the altar (cf. the note on v. 9).

² tn The Hebrew text says literally “the top of the hill,” but judging from the location and the terrain it probably means the heights of the hill country.

¹ tn Heb “and on top of the stand, a half cubit [in] height, round all around” (the meaning of this description is uncertain).

⁵ sn The prophet Elijah’s position on the top of the hill symbolizes his superiority to the king and his messengers.

² tn Heb “to a cubit you shall finish it from above.” The idea is that Noah was to leave an 18-inch opening from the top for a window for light.

¹ tn A translation of “heavens” for שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) fits this context because the Babylonian ziggurats had temples at the top, suggesting they reached to the heavens, the dwelling place of the gods.

² sn You anointed the sacred stone. In Gen 28:18 the text simply reported that Jacob poured oil on top of the stone. Now that pouring is interpreted by the Lord as an anointing. Jacob had consecrated the place.