¹ tn Heb “the three,” referring to the three elite warriors mentioned in v. 12.

² tn Heb “the ark of God the Lord who sits [between] the cherubim which is called [by his] name.”

³ tn Heb “because for what was at first [i.e., formerly] you [were] not, the Lord our God broke out against us, because we did not seek him concerning the procedure.”

⁴ 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.”

⁵ tn Heb “belonging to Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun.”

⁶ tn This name appears as “Izri” in v. 10.

⁷ tc One Hebrew ms and some LXX mss supply the name “Shimei” after “Jeshaiah.” Most Hebrew mss omit the name here (but cf. v. 17).

⁸ tc The list includes only five names. Apparently the name “Shimei” (see v. 17), which appears in one medieval Hebrew ms and in the LXX, has been accidentally omitted from the Hebrew text.

⁹ tn Heb “a young man and tender.”