9:6 “But if you or your sons ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, 3 and decide to serve and worship other gods, 4
1 tn Heb “because you asked for this thing, and did not ask for yourself many days and did not ask for yourself riches and did not ask for the life of your enemies, but you asked for yourself understanding to hear judgment.”
2 tn Heb “As for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, by doing all which I commanded you, [and] you keep my rules and my regulations.” Verse 4 is actually a lengthy protasis (“if” section) of a conditional sentence, the apodosis (“then” section) of which appears in v. 5.
3 tn Heb “which I placed before you.”
4 tn Heb “and walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”