¹ tc The Hebrew text has simply “the Lord God of Israel.” On the basis of the Syriac version, many reconstruct the text to read “[is] my witness,” which may have fallen out of the text by homoioarcton (an error which is entirely possible if עֵד, ’ed, “witness,” immediately followed ַָדוִד, “David,” in the original text).

² tn Heb “and uncover your ear.”

³ tn Heb “let not a man know anything about the matter [for] which I am sending you and [about] which I commanded you.”

⁴ tn Heb “servants.”

⁵ tn The Hebrew expression here refers to a particular, but unnamed, place. It occurs in the OT only here, in 2 Kgs 6:8, and in Ruth 4:1, where Boaz uses it to refer to Naomi’s unnamed kinsman-redeemer. A contracted form of the expression appears in Dan 8:13.

⁶ tn Heb “and foolishness is with him.”

⁷ tn Heb “my lord’s servants, whom you sent.”