⁹ tn Grk “having died twice.”

¹ tn Grk “were grieved” (so also twice later in the verse).

⁴ tn Heb “comes upon.” This phrase occurs twice in this verse.

² tn Heb “the sons of Ammon” (twice in this verse).

¹ tn Heb “the God” (the phrase occurs twice in this verse).

⁹ sn Twice dead probably has no relevance to the tree metaphor, but has great applicability to these false teachers. As in Rev 20:6, those who die twice are those who die physically and spiritually. The aphorism is true: “born once, die twice; born twice, die once” (cf. Rev 20:5; John 3, 11).

⁴ tn Heb “human lives” or “souls” (three times in v. 18 and twice in v. 19).

² sn The Hebrew term “silver” (translated “money”) is repeated twice in this line for rhetorical emphasis.

⁴ tn The construction uses the verb “and he added” with the word “repeat” (or “twice”).

¹ tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 16, 22, 25, 27 [twice]).

² tn Heb “appease” or “soften the face of,” twice in this verse.

² tn Heb “robbers who robbed them.” (The verb שָׁסָה [shasah] appears twice in the verse.)

² tn The verse uses כֹּה (koh) twice: “Station yourself here…I will meet [the Lord] there.”

¹ tn The translation has “regular” instead of “continually,” because they will be preparing this twice a day.

¹ tn Heb “my.” The expression “my lord” occurs twice more in this verse.

¹ tn Heb “Laban, the brother of his mother” (twice in this verse).

¹ tn Or “several times”; Grk, “both once and twice.” The literal expression “once and twice” is frequently used as a Greek idiom referring to an indefinite low number, but more than once (“several times”); see L&N 60.70.

² tn Or “several times”; Grk, “both once and twice.” The literal expression “once and twice” is frequently used as a Greek idiom referring to an indefinite low number, but more than once (“several times”); see L&N 60.70.

⁷ tn The preposition ἐκ (ek) has been translated here and twice in the following verse with a causal sense.

⁵ sn The use of the verb poured out looks back to 2:17-18, where the same verb occurs twice.