Discovery Box| (0.40) | (Isa 37:9) | 3 tn Heb “heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, ‘He has come out to fight with you.’” |
| (0.40) | (Isa 37:6) | 1 tn Heb “by which the servants of the king of Assyria have insulted me.” |
| (0.40) | (Isa 14:4) | 1 tn Heb “you will lift up this taunt over the king of Babylon, saying.” |
| (0.40) | (Isa 7:6) | 2 tn Heb “and we will make the son of Tabeel king in its midst.” |
| (0.40) | (Pro 31:7) | 2 tn The king was not to “drink and forget”; the suffering are to “drink and forget.” |
| (0.40) | (Pro 16:14) | 1 sn This proverb introduces the danger of becoming a victim of the king’s wrath (cf. CEV “if the king becomes angry, someone may die”). A wise person knows how to pacify the unexpected and irrational behavior of a king. The proverb makes the statement, and then gives the response to the subject. |
| (0.40) | (Pro 16:13) | 1 tc The MT has the plural. Two Hebrew mss, the LXX, Syriac, and Targum read “a king.” |
| (0.40) | (Psa 149:2) | 2 sn The Lord is the King here, as the parallelism in the previous line (“their creator”) indicates. |
| (0.40) | (Psa 115:3) | 1 sn He does whatever he pleases. Such sovereignty is characteristic of kings (see Eccl 8:3). |
| (0.40) | (Psa 101:4) | 2 tn Heb “know.” The king will not willingly allow perverse individuals to remain in his royal court. |
| (0.40) | (Psa 89:40) | 1 tn The king here represents the land and cities over which he rules. |
| (0.40) | (Psa 61:6) | 1 tn Heb “days upon days of the king add, his years like generation and generation.” |
| (0.40) | (Psa 45:15) | 1 tn Heb “they are led with joy and happiness, they enter the house of the king.” |
| (0.40) | (Psa 45:1) | 1 sn Psalm 45. This is a romantic poem celebrating the Davidic king’s marriage to a lovely princess. The psalmist praises the king for his military prowess and commitment to justice, urges the bride to be loyal to the king, and anticipates that the marriage will be blessed with royal offspring. |
| (0.40) | (Psa 20:1) | 3 sn May the Lord answer you. The people address the king as they pray to the Lord. |
| (0.40) | (Psa 2:8) | 1 sn I will give you the nations. The Lord promises the Davidic king universal dominion. |
| (0.40) | (Est 9:25) | 1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.40) | (Est 4:11) | 1 tn Heb “one is his law”; NASB “he (the king NIV) has but one law” |
| (0.40) | (Neh 2:18) | 1 tn Heb “the words of the king which he had spoken to me.” |
| (0.40) | (Neh 2:5) | 1 tn Heb “If upon the king it is good.” So also in v. 7. |
