12:31 From the half tribe of Manasseh there were 18,000 who had been designated by name to come and make David king.
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ephraim) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “because in tragedy there had come to his house.” The preposition prefixed to רָעָה (ra’ah) should probably be omitted. The Hebrew noun רָעָה (“tragedy”) should be understood as the subject of the feminine verb form that follows.