⁵ tn Or “the South [country].”

² tn Or “the South [country].”

¹ tn Or “earth” (KJV); NAB “the country.”

² tn Heb “Egypt,” which stands by metonymy for the country’s inhabitants.

² tn Heb “Negev.” The Negev is the south country.

² tn Heb “and from all the hill country of Israel.”

¹ tn Or “the South [country]”; Heb “the land of the Negev.”

¹ tn Or “the South [country]” (also in v. 3).

¹ tn The Hebrew text has simply “the hill country,” which must here include the hill country of Ephraim and the forest regions mentioned in v. 15.

¹ tn The Hebrew text has simply “the hill country,” which must here include the hill country of Ephraim and the forest regions mentioned in v. 15.

³ sn The slopes (אֲשֵׁדוֹת, ʾashedot) refer to the ascent from the rift valley up to the hill country and to the flatlands (or wilderness) south of the hill country.

² tn Or “will be strangers,” that is, one who lives as a noncitizen of a foreign country.

² tn This can be understood as “many people” (cf. NRSV) or “many countries” (cf. NASB, NIV, NLT).

² tn Or “in the country,” or “in her armies”; Heb “in her midst.”

² tn Heb “his people” (cf. KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV) or “his nation” (cf. TEV “their own countries”).

² tn Or “country.” This term functions as a metonymy of subject for the people in the land.

¹ tn Heb “He came to the Ephraimite hill country, to Micah’s house, making his way.”

¹ tn Heb “went and cut off the Anakites from the hill country.”

¹ tn Or “in the country” (so NAB, NIV, NLT). This expression also occurs in v. 15.

² tn Heb “in your gates”; NRSV, CEV “in your towns”; TEV “in your country.”