² tn Heb “except he did not enter the house of the Lord.”

² tn Heb “went up [to] Jerusalem and the city entered into siege.”

¹ tn Heb “on the right of the altar as a man enters.”

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

¹ tc The LXX adds “they entered the temple of Dagon and saw.”

¹ tn Heb “they turned aside there to enter to spend the night.”

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

² tn Heb “and they entered the camp and spent the night in the camp.”

² tn The meaning, of course, is to be ceremonially unclean, and therefore disqualified from entering the sanctuary.

¹ tn The Hebrew verb is simply “enter, go,” no doubt with the sense of go near.

¹ tn Heb “and they entered the land of Canaan to their father.”

¹ tn The preposition מִן (min) is causal here, explaining why Noah and his family entered the ark.

¹ tn Grk “And whatever town you enter,” but this is more often expressed in English as “whenever you enter a town.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

⁴ tn The verb is simply בּוֹא (boʾ, “to enter”). The NIV translates interpretively “be heard in it.” A shout of joy, such as at a birth, that “enters” a day is certainly heard on that day.

¹ tn Grk “if they shall enter my rest,” a Hebrew idiom expressing an oath that something will certainly not happen.

¹ sn The temple is on a hill in Jerusalem, so one would go up to enter its precincts.

² tn Heb “and be with the king when he goes in/enters and when he goes out/exits.”

² tn Heb “whom you did not allow Israel to enter when they came from the land of Egypt.”

¹ tn Heb “If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ the famine is in the city and we will die there.”

¹ tn Heb “and the wife of Jeroboam did so; she arose and went to Shiloh and entered the house of Ahijah.”