1 tn Heb “play.” What is in view here is a gladiatorial contest in which representative groups of soldiers engage in mortal combat before the watching armies. Cf. NAB “perform for us”; NASB “hold (have NRSV) a contest before us”; NLT “put on an exhibition of hand-to-hand combat.”
2 tn Heb “let them arise.”
3 tc In the MT the verb is singular, but in the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate it is plural.
4 tn Heb “what is in his mouth.”