³ tn Heb “top” (singular).

¹ tn Heb “head” or “top.”

¹ tn Heb “on top,” or “above.”

² tn Heb “on the tops of.”

² tn Heb “and threw them from the top of the cliff.”

¹ tn Grk “worshiped on the top of his staff,” a quotation from Gen 47:31 (LXX).

³ sn (Not) one stone on top of another is an idiom for total destruction.

¹ tn Heb “if I do not lift up Jerusalem over the top of my joy.”

² tn Heb “on,” meaning “on top of, in addition to” (likewise in v. 15).

² tn The Hebrew term occurs elsewhere only in Judg 9:37. Perhaps it means “high point, top.”

² tn Or “dross.” The word refers to the scum or impurites floating on the top of melted metal.

¹ tc The parallel text of 1 Kgs 10:19 has instead “and the back of it was rounded on top.”

¹ sn That is, on top of the flat roof of the palace, so it would be visible to the public.

² tn Heb “in it.” In this context “in it” apparently refers to the “hearth” which was on top of the altar.

¹ sn By their diligent work they succeed to management. The diligent rise to the top, while the lazy sink to the bottom.

⁵ sn The prophet Elijah’s position on the top of the hill symbolizes his superiority to the king and his messengers.

¹ tn Heb “and on top of the stand, a half cubit [in] height, round all around” (the meaning of this description is uncertain).

² tn The Hebrew text says literally “the top of the hill,” but judging from the location and the terrain it probably means the heights of the hill country.

¹ tn Heb “in it,” apparently referring to the “hearth” which was on top of the altar (cf. the note on v. 9).

¹ sn The refiner’s fire was used to purify metal and refine it by melting it and allowing the dross, which floated to the top, to be scooped off.