¹ tn Heb “Why have you given me as an inheritance one lot and one portion, though I am a great people until [the time] which, until now the Lord has blessed me?” The construction עַד אֲשֶׁר־עַד־כֹּה (ʿad ʾasher ʿad koh, “until [the time] which, until now”) is extremely awkward. An emendation of the first עַד (ʿad) to עַל (ʿal) yields a more likely reading: “for until now” (see HALOT 787 s.v. III עַד).

¹ sn That is, until Christ’s nature or character is formed in them (see L&N 58.4).

² tn Or “Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.”

¹ tn Heb “I will bereave them from a man”; cf. NRSV “I will bereave them until no one is left.”

² tn Heb “He did not return His hand from swallowing.” That is, he persisted until it was destroyed.

¹ tn Heb “from the day your ancestors…until this very day.” However, “day” here is idiomatic for “the present time.”

¹ tn Heb “until old age, I am he” (NRSV similar); NLT “I will be your God throughout your lifetime.”

³ tn Heb “the high places and the altars from all Judah and Benjamin and in Ephraim and in Manasseh until finished.”

² tn Heb “and until then, the majority of them were keeping the charge of the house of Saul.”

¹ tn Heb “and also Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem from mouth to mouth.”

² tn Heb “and he made his face stand [i.e., be motionless] and set [his face?] until embarrassment.”

² tn Heb “because of the battles which surrounded him until the Lord placed them under the soles of his feet.”

¹ tc A few Hebrew mss and the LXX read “villages; the large rock…[is witness] until this very day.”

¹ tn Heb “And Samson lay until the middle of the night and arose in the middle of the night.”

¹ tn Heb “but all the people they struck down with the edge of the sword until they destroyed them.”

¹ tn Heb “on a tree until evening.” The words “leaving him exposed” are supplied in the translation for clarity.

¹ tn Heb “and all Israel was crossing over on dry ground until all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan.”

² tn Heb “stone them with stones so that they die” (KJV similar); NCV “throw stones at that person until he dies.”

² tn Heb “remain all night until the morning” (so KJV, ASV). This has been simplified in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹ sn The word used is “silver.” Coins were not in existence until after 700 b.c. (starting with Lydia).