14:40 And early 1 in the morning they went up to the crest of the hill country, 2 saying, “Here we are, and we will go up to the place that the Lord commanded, 3 for we have sinned.” 4
1 tn The verb וַיַּשְׁכִּמוּ (vayyashkimu) is often found in a verbal hendiadys construction: “They rose early…and they went up” means “they went up early.”
2 tn The Hebrew text says literally “the top of the hill,” but judging from the location and the terrain it probably means the heights of the hill country.
3 tn The verb is simply “said,” but it means the place that the
4 sn Their sin was unbelief. They could have gone and conquered the area if they had trusted the