Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Est 4:14) | 2 tn Heb “place” (so KJV, NIV, NLT); NRSV “from another quarter.” This is probably an oblique reference to help coming from God. D. J. A. Clines disagrees; in his view a contrast between deliverance by Esther and deliverance by God is inappropriate (Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther [NCBC], 302). But Clines’ suggestion that perhaps the reference is to deliverance by Jewish officials or by armed Jewish revolt is less attractive than seeing this veiled reference as part of the literary strategy of the book, which deliberately keeps God’s providential dealings entirely in the background. |
| (0.30) | (Ezr 6:7) | 1 tc For the MT reading “the work on this temple of God” the LXX reads “the servant of the Lord Zurababel” [= Zerubbabel]. |
| (0.30) | (Ezr 5:5) | 1 tn Aram “the eye of their God was on.” The idiom describes the attentive care that one exercises in behalf of the object of his concern. |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 36:15) | 2 tn Heb “and the Lord God of their fathers sent against them by the hand of his messengers, getting up early and sending.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 24:27) | 2 tn Heb “and the founding of the house of God, look, they are written on the writing of the scroll of the kings?” |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 24:9) | 1 tn Heb “and they gave voice in Judah and Jerusalem to bring to the Lord the tax of Moses the servant of God upon Israel in the wilderness.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 15:18) | 1 tn Heb “and he brought the holy things of his father and his holy things [into] the house of God, silver, gold, and items.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 13:9) | 2 tn Heb “whoever comes to fill his hand with a bull, a son of cattle, and seven rams, and he is a priest to no-gods.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 11:16) | 1 tn Heb “and after them from all the tribes of Israel, the ones giving their heart[s] to seek the Lord God of Israel came [to] Jerusalem.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 9:23) | 1 tn Heb “and all the kings of the earth were seeking the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom which God had placed in his heart.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 6:7) | 1 tn Heb “and it was with the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.” |
| (0.30) | (1Ch 21:15) | 1 tn The parallel text of 2 Sam 24:15 reports that God sent a plague, while 24:16-17 attributes this to the instrumentality of an angel. |
| (0.30) | (1Ch 17:17) | 1 tn Heb “and this was small in your eyes, O God, so you spoke concerning the house of your servant for a distance.” |
| (0.30) | (1Ch 16:42) | 1 tn Heb “and with them, Heman and Jeduthun, trumpets and cymbals for sounding, and the instrument of song of God, and the sons of Jeduthun [were] at the gate.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ki 19:12) | 1 tn Heb “Did the gods of the nations whom my fathers destroyed rescue them—Gozan and Haran, and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who are in Telassar?” |
| (0.30) | (2Ki 19:4) | 1 tn Heb “all the words of the chief adviser whom his master, the king of Assyria, sent to taunt the living God.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ki 17:31) | 2 sn Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of the Sepharvaim are unknown in extra-biblical literature. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 212. |
| (0.30) | (2Ki 16:2) | 2 tn Heb “and he did not do what was proper in the eyes of the Lord his God, like David his father.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ki 10:31) | 1 tn Heb “But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ki 7:17) | 3 tn Heb “just as the man of God had spoken, [the word] which he spoke when the king came down to him.” |
