Discovery Box| (0.35) | (Jer 25:22) | 3 sn The connection with Tyre and Sidon suggests that these were Phoenician colonies. See also Isa 23:2. |
| (0.35) | (Jer 11:21) | 4 tn Heb “who were seeking my life, saying…” The sentence is broken up in conformity with contemporary English style. |
| (0.35) | (Jer 2:36) | 3 tn Heb “You will be ashamed/disappointed by Egypt, just as you were ashamed/ disappointed by Assyria.” |
| (0.35) | (Isa 42:24) | 2 tn Heb “they were not willing in his ways to walk, and they did not listen to his law.” |
| (0.35) | (Isa 37:16) | 1 sn The cherubim (singular “cherub”) refer to the images of winged angelic creatures that were above the ark of the covenant. |
| (0.35) | (Isa 33:9) | 6 sn Both of these areas were known for their trees and vegetation. See 2:13; 35:2. |
| (0.35) | (Isa 29:21) | 2 sn Legal disputes were resolved at the city gate, where the town elders met. See Amos 5:10. |
| (0.35) | (Isa 14:13) | 2 sn In Canaanite mythology the stars of El were astral deities under the authority of the high god El. |
| (0.35) | (Psa 129:8) | 1 tn The perfect verbal form is used for rhetorical effect; it describes an anticipated development as if it were already reality. |
| (0.35) | (Psa 92:12) | 2 sn The cedars of the Lebanon forest were well-known in ancient Israel for their immense size. |
| (0.35) | (Psa 83:11) | 2 sn Zebah and Zalmunna were the Midianite kings. Gideon captured them and executed them (Judg 8:1-21). |
| (0.35) | (Psa 81:12) | 2 tn Heb “they walked in their counsel.” The prefixed verbal form is either preterite (“walked”) or a customary imperfect (“were walking”). |
| (0.35) | (Job 32:3) | 1 tn Heb “his”; the referent (Job) has been specified in the translation to indicate whose friends they were. |
| (0.35) | (Job 10:13) | 1 sn “These things” refers to the affliction that God had brought on Job. They were concealed by God from the beginning. |
| (0.35) | (Job 1:15) | 1 sn The name “Sheba” is used to represent its inhabitants, or some of them. The verb is feminine because the name is a place name. The Sabeans were a tribe from the Arabian peninsula. They were traders mostly (6:19). The raid came from the south, suggesting that this band of Sabeans were near Edom. The time of the attack seems to be winter since the oxen were plowing. |
| (0.35) | (2Ch 18:2) | 4 tn Heb “and Ahab slaughtered for him sheep and cattle in abundance, and for the people who were with him.” |
| (0.35) | (2Ch 17:13) | 1 tn Heb “and many supplies were his in the cities of Judah, and men of war, warriors of skill in Jerusalem.” |
| (0.35) | (2Ch 17:10) | 1 tn Heb “and the terror of the Lord was upon all the kingdoms of the lands which were surrounding Judah.” |
| (0.35) | (2Ch 11:13) | 1 tn Heb “and the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel supported him from all their territory.” |
| (0.35) | (2Ch 9:18) | 2 tn Heb “[There were] armrests on each side of the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.” |
