19:8 So the king got up and sat at the city gate. When all the people were informed that the king was sitting at the city gate, they 1 all came before him.
But the Israelite soldiers 2 had all fled to their own homes. 3
23:5 My dynasty is approved by God, 4
for he has made a perpetual covenant with me,
arranged in all its particulars and secured.
He always delivers me,
and brings all I desire to fruition. 5
1 tn Heb “all the people.”
2 tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” (see 18:16-17).
3 tn Heb “had fled, each to his tent.”
4 tn Heb “For not thus [is] my house with God?”
5 tn Heb “for all my deliverance and every desire, surely does he not make [it] grow?”