Discovery Box| (0.50) | (Job 41:4) | 2 tn The imperfect verb serves to express what the covenant pact would cover, namely, “that you take.” |
| (0.50) | (Job 31:30) | 1 tn This verse would then be a parenthesis in which he stops to claim his innocence. |
| (0.50) | (Job 16:21) | 1 tn E. Dhorme (Job, 240) alters this slightly to read “Would that” or “Ah! if only.” |
| (0.50) | (Job 3:13) | 4 tn The last part uses the impersonal verb “it would be at rest for me.” |
| (0.50) | (Est 1:3) | 1 sn The third year of Xerxes’ reign would be ca. 483 b.c. |
| (0.50) | (Ezr 6:15) | 1 sn The sixth year of the reign of Darius would be ca. 516 b.c. |
| (0.50) | (2Ch 5:3) | 2 sn The seventh month would be September-October in modern reckoning. |
| (0.50) | (2Ch 3:2) | 1 sn This would be April-May, 966 b.c. by modern reckoning. |
| (0.50) | (2Ki 25:27) | 2 sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning. |
| (0.50) | (2Ki 13:14) | 1 tn Heb “Now Elisha was ill with the illness by which he would die.” |
| (0.50) | (1Ki 12:32) | 1 sn The eighth month would correspond to October-November in modern reckoning. |
| (0.50) | (1Ki 8:2) | 2 sn The month Ethanim. This would be September-October in modern reckoning. |
| (0.50) | (1Ki 6:6) | 5 tn Heb “so that [the beams] would not have a hold in the walls of the temple.” |
| (0.50) | (2Sa 21:16) | 3 sn 300 bronze shekels would have weighed about 7.5 pounds (3.4 kg). |
| (0.50) | (2Sa 14:26) | 2 tn Heb “two hundred shekels.” The modern equivalent would be about three pounds (1.4 kg). |
| (0.50) | (2Sa 12:3) | 4 tn Heb “and on his chest [or perhaps, “lap”] it would lie.” |
| (0.50) | (1Sa 9:8) | 1 sn A quarter shekel of silver would weigh about a tenth of an ounce (about 3 grams). |
| (0.50) | (1Sa 7:17) | 1 tn Or perhaps “settled disputes for” (cf. NLT “would hear cases there”; NRSV “administered justice there”). |
| (0.50) | (Jos 24:10) | 2 tn Heb “blessing.” Balaam’s “blessings” were actually prophecies of how God would prosper Israel. |
| (0.50) | (Deu 23:15) | 1 tn The Hebrew text includes “from his master,” but this would be redundant in English style. |
