² sn Sheba was located in Arabia.

² tn Heb “all of them, from Sheba.”

¹ tn Heb “the head of Sheba son of Bikri.”

² sn Beer Sheba. See Gen 21:31; 28:10.

³ sn The verb forms a wordplay with the name Beer Sheba.

⁶ sn Sheba became the name of a kingdom in southwest Arabia.

² tc The MT has “and Sheba” listed after “Beer Sheba.” The LXX suggests “Shema.” The Hebrew text may be defective here, since the form “Sheba” duplicates the latter part of the preceding name. If Sheba (or Shema) is retained as a separate city, the list numbers fourteen, one more than the number given in the concluding summary (v. 6). Some translations treat it as an alternate shorter name for “Beer Sheba” rendering it as “or Sheba;” cf. HCSB, TNIV, and JPS.

³ tn An alternate reading is “drunkards.” Sheba is located in the area of modern day Yemen.

¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sheba) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² sn Seba is not the same as Sheba in southern Arabia; cf. Gen 1:10; 1 Chr 1:9.

² tn Heb “there has not been like those spices which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.”

² tn Heb “there has not come like those spices yet for quantity which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.”

² tn Heb “and Abraham stayed in Beer Sheba.” This has been translated as a relative clause for stylistic reasons.

³ sn The descendants of Sheba lived in South Arabia, where the Joktanites were more powerful than the Hamites.

¹ tn The disjunctive clause supplies pertinent supplemental information. The past perfect is used because the following narrative records the treaty at Beer Sheba. Prior to this we are told that Isaac settled in Beer Sheba; presumably this treaty would have allowed him to do that. However, it may be that he settled there and then made the treaty by which he renamed the place Beer Sheba. In this case one may translate “Now Abimelech came to him.”

³ sn The Negev is the area of central, southern Judah, south of the hill country and Beer Sheba and west of the rift valley.

² sn The Negev is an area of central, southern Judah, south of the hill country and Beer Sheba and west of the rift valley.

¹ tn Heb “Judah and Israel lived securely, each one under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan to Beer Sheba, all the days of Solomon.”

¹ sn The Negev is the area of central, southern Judah, south of the hill country and Beer Sheba and west of the rift valley.

² sn Kadesh is Ain Qadeis, about 50 miles (83 km) south of Beer Sheba. It is called Kadesh Barnea in Num 32:8.