5:11 The priests left the holy place. 2 All the priests who participated had consecrated themselves, no matter which division they represented. 3
1 tn Or perhaps, “molds.”
2 tn Heb “and when the priests went from the holy place.” The syntactical relationship of this temporal clause to the following context is unclear. Perhaps the thought is completed in v. 14 after a lengthy digression.
3 tn Heb “Indeed [or “for”] all the priests who were found consecrated themselves without guarding divisions.”
4 tn Heb “and it was with the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the
sn On the significance of the
5 tn Heb “all the wisdom of Solomon.”
6 tn Heb “house.”
7 tn Heb “Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders which they advised and he consulted the young men with whom he had grown up, who stood before him.”
8 tn Heb “lifted up for himself.”
9 tn Heb “times.”
10 tn Heb “there was peace for the one going out or the one coming in.”
11 tn Heb “for great confusion was upon all the inhabitants of the lands.”
12 tn Heb “and many supplies were his in the cities of Judah, and men of war, warriors of skill in Jerusalem.”
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13 tn Heb “as Manasseh his father had humbled himself.”
14 tn Heb “for he, Amon, multiplied guilt.”