⁴ tn The Hebrew term refers to elevated platforms where pagan sacrifices were performed.

¹ tn Heb “For.” But this introduces a long explanation about the relative importance of sacrifice and obedience.

³ sn This apparently alludes to the practice of child sacrifice (cf. TEV, CEV, NLT).

¹ tn The words “for a sacrifice” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

² tc The parallel text in 2 Sam 24:24 has the plural “burnt sacrifices.”

¹ tn Heb “to hold the burnt sacrifices, grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.”

¹ tn The LXX has “[their] burnt offerings, and their sacrifices, and their drink offerings.”

⁵ tn Heb “if we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians [or “of Egypt”] before their eyes.”

¹ tn The construction is a cognate accusative with the verb, expressing a specific sacrifice.

¹ tn Heb “their altars” (so NAB, NRSV) or “their sacrifices” (so KJV, NASB, NIV). Here זִבְחוֹתָם (zivkhotam, “altars; sacrifices”) is a metonymy of association for Israel’s apostate, idolatrous Baal worship.

¹ tn Heb “and the number of burnt sacrifices which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, two hundred lambs; for a burnt sacrifice to the Lord were all these.”

¹ tn Heb “sacrifice of days.” The plural “days” often refers to a set of days, commonly a year, thus an annual sacrifice (cf. 1 Sam 2:29; 20:6).

² tn The purpose clause here is formed with a second cohortative joined with a vav (ו): “let us go…and let us sacrifice.” The purpose of the going was to sacrifice.

¹ tn Heb “does not accept them”; the referent (their sacrifices) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹ sn Eating the fat and drinking blood were God’s exclusive rights in Israelite sacrifices (Lev 3:17).

² tn Heb “for your servant will not again make a burnt offering and sacrifice to other gods, only to the Lord.”

¹ sn Offering sacrifices at the high places. The “high places” were places of worship that were naturally or artificially elevated.

¹ tn Heb “sacrifice the Passover” (so NASB). The word “animal” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

¹ sn See M. Haran, “The Passover Sacrifice,” Studies in the Religion of Ancient Israel (VTSup), 86-116.

¹ tn The word “atonements” (plural in Hebrew) is a genitive showing the result or product of the sacrifice made.