³ tn Or “but it eluded me”; Heb “but it was far from me.”

³ tn Heb “and he did not delight in a blessing and it is far from him.”

¹ tn Heb “you cause to be far from me friend and neighbor.”

¹ tn Heb “and you killed them with anger [that] reaches as far as heaven.”

¹ tn Heb “Far be it to me from my God from doing this.”

¹ tn Heb “Far be it to me, O Lord, from doing this.”

¹ sn Dan was located in the far north of the country, while Beer Sheba was located in the far south. This encompassed all the territory of the land of Canaan occupied by the Israelites.

⁴ sn Jesus was now attracting attention outside of Galilee as far away as Jerusalem, the main city of Israel.

¹ sn Those who are far away is probably a reference to later groups of returning exiles under Ezra, Nehemiah, and others.

³ tn Heb “For I will rescue you from far away, your descendants from the land of their captivity.”

² tn Heb “For I will rescue you from far away, your descendants from the land of their captivity.”

³ tn Heb “from terror.” The rhetorical command, “be far” is understood by ellipsis here. Note the preceding context.

² tn Heb “from it and onwards.” HALOT 245 s.v. הָלְאָה suggests the translation “far and wide.”

¹ tn The text uses חָלִילָה לִּי (khalilah li) meaning “far be it from me,” or more strongly, something akin to “sacrilege.”

¹ tn Heb “Far be it from me, by the Lord, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you.”

² tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX adds “we entered and walked around in the land as far as Laish and.”

¹ tn Heb “Far be it, far be it from me.” The expression is clearly emphatic, as may be seen in part by the repetition. P. K. McCarter, however, understands it to be coarser than the translation adopted here. He renders it as “I’ll be damned if…” (II Samuel [AB], 426, 429), which (while it is not a literal translation) may not be too far removed from the way a soldier might have expressed himself.

³ tn The construction is very emphatic. First, it uses a verbal hendiadys with a Hiphil imperfect and the Qal infinitive construct: לֹא־תַרְחִיקוּ לָלֶכֶת (loʾ tarkhiqu lalekhet, “you will not make far to go”), meaning “you will not go far.” But this prohibition is then emphasized with the additional infinitive absolute הַרְחֵק (harkheq)—“you will not in any way go too far.” The point is very strong to safeguard the concession.

¹ sn Mention of Christian brothers from there (Rome) shows that God’s message had already spread as far as Italy and the capital of the empire.

¹ tn Grk “the depths,” the deep area of a sea far enough from land that it is not protected by the coast (L&N 1.73).