² tn Heb “and his throne like the sun before me.”

³ tn Heb “you established [the] light and [the] sun.”

² tn The name appears to mean “sun-like” or “solar.”

¹ tn Heb “eastward toward the rising of the sun.”

² tn Heb “beyond the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun.”

³ tn Heb “in the sun.” This means in broad daylight.

¹ tn Heb “the shadow on the steps which it [the sun] had gone down, on the steps of Ahaz, with the sun, back ten steps.”

⁴ sn Like a strong man. The metaphorical language reflects the brilliance of the sunrise, which attests to the sun’s vigor.

¹ tn Heb “light,” but parallel to the moon it is the sun. This section speaks of false worship of the sun and the moon.

² sn That is, Peter’s denials will happen before the sun rises.

² tn Heb “[one] from the rising of the sun [who] calls in my name.”

² tn Heb “and the sun returned ten steps on the steps which it had gone down.”

³ tn Heb “and the chariots of the sun he burned with fire.”

¹ tc The MT reads “and to the sun,” thus including the sun, the moon, and other heavenly spheres among the gods. However, Theodotion and Lucian read “or to the sun,” suggesting perhaps that the sun and the other heavenly bodies are not in the category of actual deities.

² tn Heb “and he spent the night there because the sun had gone down.”

² tn Heb “the sun goes.” The participle בָּא (baʾ, “to go in”) emphasizes continual, durative, uninterrupted action (present universal use of participle): the sun is continually rising and continually setting day after day. The repetition of בָּא in 1:4-5 creates a comparison between the relative futility of all human endeavor (“a generation comes and a generation goes [בָּא]”) with the relative futility of the action of the sun (“the sun rises and the sun goes” [i.e., “sets,” בָּא]).

¹ tc MT, 4QJer^a and LXX read, “the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven,” but 4QJer^c reads, “the sun and all the stars.”

² tn The juxtaposition of the two disjunctive clauses indicates synchronic action. The first action (the sun’s rising) occurred as the second (Lot’s entering Zoar) took place. The disjunctive clauses also signal closure for the preceding scene.

¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “thus” to indicate the implied result of the bowl poured on the sun.

² sn Moloch was a Canaanite deity who was believed to be the god of the sky and the sun.