¹ tn Heb “and these were the heads of the warriors who were David’s, who held strongly with him in his kingdom and with all Israel to make him king, according to the word of the Lord, over Israel.”

² tn Heb “the three,” referring to the three elite warriors mentioned in v. 12.

³ tn The Hebrew text adds “in her heart.”

⁴ tn Traditionally, “Lord of hosts.”

⁵ tn Heb “and from after sheep.”

⁶ tn Here the word “house” is used in a metaphorical sense, referring to a royal dynasty. The Lord’s use of the word here plays off the literal sense that David had in mind as he contemplated building a temple (“house”) for the Lord. In the translation the adjective “dynastic” is supplied to indicate that the term is used metaphorically.

⁷ tn Heb “house.”

⁸ tn Heb “for you, O Lord, have blessed and [it is] blessed permanently.”

⁹ tn Heb “There is great distress to me; let me fall into the hand of the Lord for his mercy is very great, but into the hand of men let me not fall.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “the place of the threshing floor.”

¹¹ tn Following the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive here indicates the immediate purpose/result: “so I can build.”

¹² tn Heb “For full silver sell to me.”

¹³ tn Following the imperative and first person prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive, this third person prefixed verbal form with vav conjunctive introduces the ultimate purpose/result: “so the plague may be removed.” Another option is subordinate this form to the preceding imperative, but the latter may be taken as a parenthetical expansion of the initial request.

¹⁴ tn Heb “these were the sons of Levi according to the house of their fathers, heads of the fathers, according to their numberings, by number of names, according to their heads, doer[s] of the work for the service of the house of the Lord, from a son of twenty years and upwards.”

¹⁵ tn The words “and sovereign” are added in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

¹⁶ tn Heb “head.”