Discovery Box| (0.43) | (2Sa 4:2) | 1 tc The present translation, “Saul’s son had two men,” is based on the reading “to the son of Saul,” rather than the MT’s “the son of Saul.” The context requires the preposition to indicate the family relationship. |
| (0.43) | (Jos 22:32) | 1 tn Heb “and Phinehas…returned from the sons of Reuben and from the sons of Gad, from the land of Gilead to the land of Canaan, to the sons of Israel. And they brought back to them a word.” |
| (0.42) | (Luk 15:30) | 3 sn The charge concerning the prostitutes is unproven, but essentially the older brother accuses the father of committing an injustice by rewarding his younger son’s unrighteous behavior. |
| (0.42) | (Luk 15:29) | 2 tn Or simply, “have served,” but in the emotional context of the older son’s outburst the translation given is closer to the point. |
| (0.42) | (Luk 15:12) | 5 tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “so” to indicate the father’s response to the younger son’s request. |
| (0.42) | (Eze 2:4) | 1 tn Heb “sons.” The word choice may reflect treaty idiom, where the relationship between an overlord and his subjects can be described as that of father and son. |
| (0.42) | (Jer 43:2) | 1 sn See the study note on 42:1 for the possible identification of this man with Jezaniah son of Hoshaiah and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite. |
| (0.42) | (Pro 27:11) | 1 tn Heb “my son”; the reference to a “son” is retained in the translation here because in the following lines the advice is to avoid women who are prostitutes. |
| (0.42) | (Pro 23:26) | 1 tn Heb “my son”; the reference to a “son” is retained in the translation here because in the following lines the advice is to avoid women who are prostitutes. |
| (0.42) | (Psa 102:20) | 1 tn Heb “the sons of death.” The phrase “sons of death” (see also Ps 79:11) is idiomatic for those condemned to die. |
| (0.42) | (Psa 78:6) | 1 tn Heb “in order that they might know, a following generation, sons [who] will be born, they will arise and will tell to their sons.” |
| (0.42) | (1Ch 23:27) | 1 tn Heb “for by the final words of David, they were the number of the sons of Levi, from a son of twenty years and upward.” |
| (0.42) | (1Ch 2:31) | 1 tn Heb “sons.” The Hebrew text has the plural “sons” in all three instances in this verse, even though the following lists have only one name each. |
| (0.42) | (Jos 22:33) | 1 tn Heb “and the word was good in the eyes of the sons of Israel and the sons of Israel blessed God.” |
| (0.42) | (Jos 16:9) | 1 tn Heb “and the cities set apart for the sons of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Manasseh, all the cities and their towns.” |
| (0.42) | (Deu 24:7) | 1 tn Heb “from his brothers, from the sons of Israel.” The terms “brothers” and “sons of Israel” are in apposition; the second defines the first more specifically. |
| (0.42) | (Gen 37:2) | 4 tn Heb “and he [was] a young man with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, the wives of his father.” |
| (0.42) | (Gen 37:3) | 2 tn Heb “a son of old age was he to him.” This expression means “a son born to him when he [i.e., Jacob] was old.” |
| (0.42) | (Gen 35:17) | 2 sn Another son. The episode recalls and fulfills the prayer of Rachel at the birth of Joseph (Gen 30:24): “may he add” another son. |
| (0.42) | (Gen 30:19) | 1 tn Heb “and she bore a sixth son for Jacob,” i.e., this was the sixth son that Leah had given Jacob. |
