¹ tn Heb “Look, I, I will die.” Apparently Jonathan is acquiescing to his anticipated fate of death. However, the words may be taken as sarcastic (“Here I am about to die!”) or as a question, “Must I now die?” (cf. NAB, NIV, NCV, NLT).

² tn Heb “and I must surely sit with the king to eat.” The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.

³ tn Heb “and you must do loyalty.”

⁴ tn Heb “for into a covenant of the Lord you have brought your servant with you.”

⁵ tn Heb “and if there is in me guilt.”

⁶ tn Heb “their camps.”

⁷ tc The translation follows the LXX (εἰς πόλεμον, eis polemon) and a Qumran ms מלחמה במלחמה ([m]lkhmh) bammilkhamah (“in the battle”) rather than the MT’s בַמַּחֲנֶה (bammakhaneh, “in the camp”; cf. NASB). While the MT reading is not impossible here, and although admittedly it is the harder reading, the variant fits the context better. The MT can be explained as a scribal error caused in part by the earlier occurrence of “camp” in this verse.

⁸ tn Heb “I know that you are good in my eyes.”