6:34 “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, 1 and they direct their prayers to you toward this chosen city and this temple I built for your honor, 2
1 tn Heb “When your people go out for battle against their enemies in the way which you send them.”
2 tn Heb “toward this city which you have chosen and the house which I built for your name.”
3 sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
4 tn Heb “and they burned for him a large fire, very great.”
5 tn Heb “at the end of years.”
6 tn The word “visit” is supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.
7 map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.
8 tn Heb “and Ahab slaughtered for him sheep and cattle in abundance, and for the people who were with him.”
9 tn Heb “to go up.”
10 tn Heb “and it was to days from days, and about the time of the going out of the end for the days, two, his intestines came out with his illness and he died in severe illness.”
11 tn Heb “and his people did not make for him a fire, like the fire of his fathers.”
12 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
13 tn Heb “and honor they did to him in his death, all Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.”