¹ tn Heb “and also they struck down the tents of the livestock.”

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

³ tn Heb “and the sons of Israel lived in their tents as before.”

² tn Heb “in the temporary shelters.” This is probably referring to tents.

² tn Heb “in the temporary shelters.” This is probably referring to tents.

² tn Heb “to your tents, Israel.” The word “return” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹ sn The name Habboth Jair means “tent villages of Jair” in Hebrew.

¹ tn Heb “took a tent peg and put a hammer in her hand.”

² sn On the tent of meeting see Exod 33:7-11.

¹ sn On the tent of meeting see Exod 33:7-11.

² sn The Hebrew name Havvoth Jair means “the tent villages of Jair.”

¹ tn Heb “Look, [it was] hidden in his tent, and the silver was beneath it.”

⁴ tc The Greek, Syriac, and Tg. Ps.-J. have “in the cloud over the tent.”

¹ sn For “tent of meeting” see the note on Lev 1:1 above.

¹ tn The LXX has mistakenly rendered this name “the tent of the testimony.”

² sn This curtain will serve “for a tent over the tabernacle,” as a dwelling place.

³ tn Grk “the temple of the tent of the testimony” (ὁ ναός τῆς σκηνῆς τοῦ μαρτυρίου, ho naos tēs skēnēs tou marturiou). The genitive “of the tent” is probably an appositional genitive and should be rendered as “the temple, which is the tent.” The entire expression, then, would be “the temple which is the tent of testimony,” that is, “the heavenly equivalent of the tent or tabernacle that was with Israel in the wilderness” (G. K. Beale, Revelation [NIGTC], 801-2).

⁴ tn The singular noun אֹהֶל (ʾohel, “tent”) may function as a collective, referring to all tents in Judah. A parallel expression occurs in verse 2 using the plural: “all the dwellings of Jacob” (כָּל־נְאוֹת יַעֲקֹב, kol n^eʾot yaʿaqov). The singular “tent” matches the image of “Daughter Zion.” On the other hand, the singular “the tent of Daughter Zion” might be a hyperbolic synecdoche of container (= tent) for contents (= inhabitants of Zion).

¹ sn The expression the tent we live in refers to “our earthly house, our body.” Paul uses the metaphor of the physical body as a house or tent, the residence of the immaterial part of a person.

¹ tn Heb “My tent has been destroyed and my tent cords have been ripped apart.” For a very similar identification of Jeremiah’s plight with the plight of the personified community, see 4:20 and the notes there.