Discovery Box| (0.30) | (2Ki 2:14) | 1 tn Heb “Elijah’s cloak, which had fallen off him.” The wording is changed slightly in the translation for the sake of variety of expression (see v. 13). |
| (0.30) | (1Ki 13:33) | 3 tn Heb “and one who had the desire he was filling his hand so that he became [one of] the priests of the high places.” |
| (0.30) | (1Ki 12:32) | 3 tn Heb “and he offered up [sacrifices] on the altar; he did this in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves which he had made.” |
| (0.30) | (1Ki 10:24) | 2 tn Heb “and all the earth was seeking the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom which God had placed in his heart.” |
| (0.30) | (1Ki 7:5) | 3 tn Heb “and all the entrances and the doorposts [had] four frames, and in front of opening to opening three times” (the precise meaning of the description is uncertain). |
| (0.30) | (2Sa 20:19) | 1 tn Heb “a city and a mother.” The expression is a hendiadys, meaning that this city was an important one in Israel and had smaller cities dependent on it. |
| (0.30) | (1Sa 21:4) | 2 tn Heb “have kept themselves from women” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “haven’t had sexual relations recently”; NLT “have not slept with any women recently.” |
| (0.30) | (Jdg 21:15) | 2 tn Heb “had made a gaping hole in.” The narrator uses imagery that compares Israel to a wall that has been breached. |
| (0.30) | (Jdg 18:29) | 1 tn Heb “They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who had been born to Israel.” |
| (0.30) | (Jdg 18:1) | 2 tn Heb “because there had not fallen to them by that day in the midst of the tribes of Israel an inheritance.” |
| (0.30) | (Jdg 8:33) | 1 sn Baal Berith was a local manifestation of the Canaanite storm god. The name means, ironically, “Baal of the covenant.” Israel’s covenant allegiance had indeed shifted. |
| (0.30) | (Jdg 7:25) | 1 sn The names Oreb and Zeeb, which mean “Raven” and “Wolf” respectively, are appropriate because the Midianites had been like scavengers and predators to Israel. |
| (0.30) | (Jdg 2:10) | 3 tn Heb “that did not know the Lord or the work which he had done for Israel.” The expressions “personally experienced” and “seen” are interpretive. |
| (0.30) | (Jos 14:2) | 1 tn Heb “By lot was their inheritance, as the Lord had commanded by Moses, to the nine tribes and the half-tribe.” |
| (0.30) | (Jos 10:37) | 1 tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army). So also for “they had done” and “they annihilated.” |
| (0.30) | (Jos 10:35) | 1 tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army). So also for “they had done to Lachish.” |
| (0.30) | (Jos 8:26) | 1 tn Heb “Joshua did not draw back his hand which held out the curved sword until he had annihilated all the residents of Ai.” |
| (0.30) | (Jos 4:18) | 2 sn Verses 15-18 give a more detailed account of the priests’ crossing that had been briefly described in v. 11. |
| (0.30) | (Num 36:2) | 1 tn The infinitive construct “to give” serves here as the complement or object of the verb, answering what the Lord had commanded Moses. |
| (0.30) | (Num 32:9) | 3 tn The Lord had not given it yet, but was going to give it. Hence, the perfect should be classified as a perfect of resolve. |
