¹ tn Heb “you word.”

² tn Or “be firm, established.”

³ tn Heb “your great name.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor (thus the translation here, “your great reputation”).

⁴ tn Heb “and your strong hand and your outstretched arm.”

⁵ tn Heb “Solomon held the festival at that time for seven days, and all Israel was with him, a very great assembly from Lebo Hamath to the wadi of Egypt.”

⁶ tn Heb “for to the guilt of the Lord upon us you are saying to add to our sins and our guilty deeds.”

⁷ tn Heb “for great is [the] guilt to us and rage of anger is upon Israel.”

⁸ tn Heb “and they were praising the Lord day by day, the Levites and the priests with instruments of strength to the Lord.” The phrase בִּכְלֵי־עֹז (bikhley-’oz, “with instruments of strength”) might refer to loud sounding musical instruments (NASB “with loud instruments”; NEB “with unrestrained fervour”). The present translation assumes an emendation to בְּכָל־עֹז (bÿkhol-’oz, “with all strength”); see 1 Chr 13:8, as well as HALOT 805 s.v. I עֹז and BDB 739 s.v. עֹז).

⁹ tn Heb “and Hezekiah spoke to the heart of all the Levites.” On the meaning of the idiom “speak to the heart of” here, see HALOT 210 s.v. II דבר 8.d.

¹⁰ tn Heb “who demonstrated skill [with] good skill for the Lord.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and they ate [during] the appointed time [for] seven days.” מוֹעֵד (mo’ed, “appointed time”) is probably an adverbial accusative of time referring to the festival. However, some understand it as metonymically referring to the food eaten during the festival. See BDB 417 s.v.

¹² tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

¹³ tn Heb “and honor they did to him in his death, all Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.”