¹ sn They grumbled in their tents. See Deut 1:27.

³ tn Heb “and the people fled to their tents.”

¹ sn The tent of meeting. See Exod 33:7-11.

¹ tn Heb “and they fled, each to his tents.”

⁵ tn Heb “for your way and go to your tent.”

² tn Heb “at the entrance of the tent of assembly.”

¹ tn Or “Let their tents…be taken….Let their tent…be carried…. Let people shout….”

⁵ tn Heb “like a tent [in which] to live”; NAB, NASB “like a tent to dwell (live NIV, NRSV) in.”

² tn Heb “and he went out from the tent of Leah and went into the tent of Rachel.”

¹ tn The name of the tent now attests to the centrality of the ark of the covenant. Instead of the “tent of meeting” (מוֹעֵד, moʿed) we now find the “the tent of the testimony” (הָעֵדֻת, haʿedut).

⁴ tn The NEB has “my tent rope,” but that seems too contrived here. It is absurd to pull up a tent-rope like a tree.

⁴ tn Heb “It came to the tent and struck it and it fell. It turned it upside down and the tent fell.”

¹ tn Or “tent.” The author uses this as a metaphor for his physical body.

¹ sn See the note in 5:1 on the phrase the tent we live in.

¹ tn Heb “tents,” used figuratively for the community here (cf. NCV, TEV); NLT “the nation of Israel.”

¹ tn Heb “the sound of a ringing shout and deliverance [is] in the tents of the godly.”

² tn Heb “and caused the tribes of Israel to settle down in their tents.”

¹ tn Heb “in their tents may there not be one who dwells.”

² tn Heb “Who may live as a resident foreigner in your tent?”

¹ tn Heb “and Judah was struck down before Israel and they fled, each to his tent.”