¹ tn Heb “and his words you heard from the midst of the fire.”

² sn The Decalogue may not be included here because the people had heard those commands themselves earlier.

¹ tn Heb “when they heard.” The words “the news” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹ tn Heb “and he heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying.”

² tn Heb “and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying.”

¹ tn Heb “Micaiah son of Gemariah son of Shaphan heard all the words of the Lord from upon the scroll.” The words “heard Baruch read” are implicit from the context and are supplied in the translation for smoothness.

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.

² tn Grk “a voice…from which those who heard begged that a word not be added to them.”

² tn Grk “heard”; the referent (these things, from the previous verse) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹ tc Heb “I heard the sound of his words.” These words are absent in the LXX and the Syriac.

¹ tn Heb “Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, annihilating them.”

¹ tn The parallel text in 2 Kgs 19:20 includes a verb, “What you have prayed … I have heard.”

² tn Heb “heard a report of it,” which means a report of its location, thus “where it can be found.”

¹ tn Heb “Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, annihilating them.”

¹ tn Heb “And Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard, now they had finished eating.”

¹ tn Heb “and Samuel heard all the words of the people and he spoke them into the ears of the Lord.”

¹ tn The words “was heard” are supplied in the translation to avoid the impression that the voice was seen.

³ tn The verb “saw” is supplied here because it is expected in English (see the previous note on “heard”).

¹ tn Heb “and when his master heard the words of his wife which she spoke to him, saying.”

³ sn Here the verb heard picks up the main motif of the name Ishmael (“God hears”), introduced back in chap. 16.