¹ tn Heb “iron.”

³ tn Heb “the iron slips off.”

¹ tn Heb “I will make your horn iron.”

² sn The name Harod means, ironically, “trembling.”

¹ sn Instead of Yiron some English translations read Iron.

² tn Heb “and he raises his hand with the iron.”

² sn A land whose stones are iron. Since iron deposits are few and far between in Palestine, the reference here is probably to iron ore found in mines as opposed to the meteorite iron more commonly known in that area.

³ sn Inciting. Ironically, it was the Jews who were disturbing the peace, not the Christians.

² sn Ironically, what Jesus was alleged to have done, started an insurrection, this man really did.

³ sn Ironically the attitude of the older son has left him outside and without joy.

⁴ sn Striking a king with a scepter, a symbol of rulership, would be especially ironic and humiliating.

⁴ tn Heb “they threshed [or “trampled down”] Gilead with sharp iron implements” (NASB similar).

¹ tc Theodotion and the Vulgate lack the phrase “and as iron breaks in pieces.”

² tn Heb “An iron yoke I have put on the necks of all these nations.”

³ tn Heb “out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron-smelting furnace.”

² tn That is, on the gates. Cf. CEV “break the iron bars on bronze gates.”

³ sn The barley harvest began in late March. See O. Borowski, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel, 91.

³ tn Or “of iron-colored basalt.” See note on the word “sarcophagus” earlier in this verse.

² tn Heb “the gold for the gold, and the silver for the silver, and the bronze for the bronze, the iron for the iron, and the wood for the wood.”

² tn Regarding the translation “chariots with iron-rimmed wheels,” see Y. Yadin, The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands, 255, and the article by R. Drews, “The ‘Chariots of Iron’ of Joshua and Judges,” JSOT 45 (1989): 15-23.