¹ tn Heb “the Lord”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

² tn Heb “a man, a prophet.” Hebrew idiom sometimes puts a generic term before a more specific designation.

³ tc Some ancient witnesses read “from the land of Egypt.” מֵאֶרֶץ (me’erets, “from the land [of]”) could have been accidentally omitted by homoioarcton (note the following מִמִּצְרַיִם [mimmitsrayim, “from Egypt”]).

⁴ tn Heb “of the house of slavery.”

⁵ tn Or “served”; or “followed.”

⁶ tn Heb “they set up for themselves.”

⁷ tn Heb “the carved image that Micah had made.”

⁸ tn Heb “the house of God.”