Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Eze 16:14) | 2 sn The description of the nation Israel in vv. 10-14 recalls the splendor of the nation’s golden age under King Solomon. |
| (0.30) | (Eze 6:3) | 2 tn The introductory formula “Hear the word of the Sovereign Lord” parallels a pronouncement delivered by the herald of a king (2 Kgs 18:28). |
| (0.30) | (Lam 4:20) | 1 tn Heb “the anointed one of the Lord.” The term “king” is added in the translation to clarify the referent of the phrase “the Lord’s anointed.” |
| (0.30) | (Jer 46:13) | 1 tn Heb “The word that the Lord spoke to the prophet Jeremiah about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to attack the land of Egypt.” |
| (0.30) | (Jer 38:6) | 3 tn Heb “the son of the king.” See the translator’s note on Jer 36:26 for the rendering here. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 36:1) | 2 tn Heb “This word came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah the king of Judah, saying.” |
| (0.30) | (Jer 35:1) | 2 tn Heb “The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, saying.” |
| (0.30) | (Jer 21:11) | 2 tn Heb “house” or “household.” It is clear from 22:1-6 that this involved the king, the royal family, and the court officials. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 10:7) | 3 tn Heb “their royalty/dominion.” This is a case of substituting the abstract “royalty, royal power” for the concrete “kings” who exercise it. |
| (0.30) | (Isa 60:16) | 1 sn The nations and kings are depicted as a mother nursing her children. Restored Zion will be nourished by them as she receives their wealth as tribute. |
| (0.30) | (Isa 49:7) | 5 tn Parallelism (see “rulers,” “kings,” “princes”) suggests that the singular גּוֹי (goy) be emended to a plural or understood in a collective sense (see 55:5). |
| (0.30) | (Isa 44:8) | 2 tn Heb “rock” or “rocky cliff,” a title that depicts God as a protective refuge in his role as sovereign king; thus the translation “sheltering rock.” |
| (0.30) | (Isa 42:1) | 3 sn Like the ideal king portrayed in Isa 11:1-9, the servant is energized by the divine spirit and establishes justice on the earth. |
| (0.30) | (Isa 38:8) | 1 sn These steps probably functioned as a type of sundial. See HALOT 614 s.v. מַעֲלָה and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 256. |
| (0.30) | (Isa 38:3) | 1 tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254. |
| (0.30) | (Isa 37:30) | 1 tn At this point the word concerning the king of Assyria (vv. 22-29) ends, and the Lord again addresses Hezekiah and the people directly (see v. 21). |
| (0.30) | (Isa 37:8) | 1 tn Heb “and the chief adviser returned and he found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he heard that he had departed from Lachish.” |
| (0.30) | (Isa 37:4) | 1 tn Heb “all the words of the chief adviser whom his master, the king of Assyria, sent to taunt the living God.” |
| (0.30) | (Isa 36:18) | 1 tn Heb “Have the gods of the nations rescued, each his land, from the hand of the king of Assyria?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course not!” |
| (0.30) | (Isa 33:18) | 3 sn The people refer to various Assyrian officials who were responsible for determining the amount of taxation or tribute Judah must pay to the Assyrian king. |
