² tn Heb “the heart of these people could return to their master.”

² tn Heb “to your tents, Israel.” The word “return” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

² tn Heb “The Lord will cause your evil to return upon your head.”

¹ tn Heb “The Lord will cause his blood to return upon his head.”

¹ tn Heb “and Joab returned from against the sons of Ammon and entered.”

¹ tn Heb “and the Lord returns to the man his righteousness and his faithfulness.”

¹ tn Heb “them.” The masculine plural pronoun apparently refers to the returning soldiers.

³ tn Heb “I opened my mouth to the Lord and I am not able to return.”

⁴ tn Heb “may return and enter his city and his house, the city from which he escaped.”

¹ tn Heb “all the people returned to the camp, to Joshua [at] Makkedah [in] peace.”

¹ tn Heb “arise, return,” meaning “get up and go back,” or “go back immediately.”

⁵ tn Heb “I will return, I will tend,” an idiom meaning “I will continue tending.”

¹ tn Heb “and I return in peace to the house of my father.”

¹ tn Heb “he returned and dug,” meaning “he dug again” or “he reopened.”

³ tn The words “he returned” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹ tn Hosea uses the similar-sounding terms יָשֻׁבוּ יֹשְׁבֵי (yashuvu yosh^eve, “the dwellers will return”) to create a wordplay between the roots שׁוּב (shuv, “to return”) and יָשַׁב (yashav, “to dwell; to reside”).

¹ tn The name means “a remnant will return.” Perhaps in this context, where the Lord is trying to encourage Ahaz, the name suggests that only a few of the enemy invaders will return home; the rest will be defeated.

¹ tn Heb “and they returned and tested God.” The Hebrew verb שׁוּב (shuv, “to return”) is used here in an adverbial sense to indicate that an earlier action was repeated.

³ tn The verb שׁוּב (shuv, “to turn; to return”) is one of the two major words in the OT for “repent”—to return from evil. Here the imperfect should be obligatory—they must do it.

² tn Heb “and Jeroboam lived in Egypt.” The parallel text in 2 Chr 10:2 reads, “and Jeroboam returned from Egypt.” In a purely consonantal text the forms “and he lived” and “and he returned” are identical (וישׁב).