Discovery Box| (0.38) | (1Sa 15:12) | 2 tc The LXX also has “he returned the chariot” or “the chariot returned” before “he went down.” Again this may or may not be part of the quotation. |
| (0.38) | (1Sa 13:3) | 1 tn Or perhaps “struck down the Philistine official.” See the note at 1 Sam 10:5. Cf. TEV “killed the Philistine commander.” |
| (0.38) | (Rut 3:7) | 3 sn Ruth must have waited until Boaz fell asleep, for he does not notice when she uncovers his legs and lies down beside him. |
| (0.38) | (Jdg 20:35) | 1 tn Heb “And the sons of Israel struck down in Benjamin that day 25,100 men, all of these wielding the sword.” |
| (0.38) | (Jdg 20:21) | 1 tn Heb “The sons of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and they struck down in Israel that day 22,000 men to the ground.” |
| (0.38) | (Jdg 19:15) | 2 tn Heb “and he entered and sat down, and there was no one receiving them into the house to spend the night.” |
| (0.38) | (Jdg 11:37) | 2 tn Heb “Leave me alone for two months so I can go and go down on the hills and weep over my virginity—I and my friends.” |
| (0.38) | (Jdg 7:13) | 4 tn Heb “It came to the tent and struck it and it fell. It turned it upside down and the tent fell.” |
| (0.38) | (Jdg 6:31) | 6 tn Heb “for he pulled down his altar.” The subject of the verb, if not Gideon, is indefinite (in which case a passive translation is permissible). |
| (0.38) | (Jos 10:41) | 1 tn Heb “and Joshua struck them down, from Kadesh Barnea even to Gaza, and all the land of Goshen, even to Gibeon.” |
| (0.38) | (Jos 10:13) | 1 tn Heb “Is it not written down in the Scroll of the Upright One?” Many modern translations render this as “the Book of Jashar.” Yashar (יָשָׁר) means “Upright One.” |
| (0.38) | (Jos 7:1) | 4 sn This incident illustrates well the principle of corporate solidarity and corporate guilt. The sin of one man brought the Lord’s anger down upon the entire nation. |
| (0.38) | (Num 30:2) | 1 tn The legal construction states the class to which the law applies, and then lays down the condition: “men [man]—if….” |
| (0.38) | (Num 15:31) | 1 tn The verb בָּזָה (bazah, “to despise”) means to treat something as worthless, to treat it with contempt, to look down the nose at something as it were. |
| (0.38) | (Num 5:15) | 1 tn All the conditions have been laid down now for the instruction to begin—if all this happened, then this is the procedure to follow. |
| (0.38) | (Exo 26:9) | 1 sn The text seems to describe this part as being in front of the tabernacle, hanging down to form a valence at the entrance (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 284). |
| (0.38) | (Exo 7:12) | 1 tn The verb is plural, but the subject is singular, “a man—his staff.” This noun can be given a distributive sense: “each man threw down his staff.” |
| (0.38) | (Exo 3:8) | 1 sn God’s coming down is a frequent anthropomorphism in Genesis and Exodus. It expresses his direct involvement, often in the exercise of judgment. |
| (0.38) | (Gen 43:15) | 1 tn Heb “they arose and went down to Egypt.” The first verb has an adverbial function and emphasizes that they departed right away. |
| (0.38) | (Gen 39:14) | 4 tn Heb “He approached me to lie down with me.” Both expressions can be a euphemism for sexual relations. See the note at 2 Sam 12:24. |
