Discovery Box| (0.37) | (Ezr 2:46) | 1 tc The translation follows the Qere reading “Shalmai” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NLT) rather than the MT Kethib “Shamlai” (so ASV, NAB, NRSV). |
| (0.37) | (Ezr 2:61) | 1 tc The translation reads וּמִן (umin, “and from”) rather than the reading וּמִבְּנֵי (umibbeney, “and from the sons of”) found in the MT. |
| (0.37) | (2Ch 21:11) | 1 tn Heb “and he caused the residents of Jerusalem to commit adultery.” In this context spiritual unfaithfulness to the Lord is in view rather than physical adultery. |
| (0.37) | (1Ch 2:55) | 3 tn Or (if בֵּית [beth] is translated as “house” rather than considered to be part of the name) “the father of the house [i.e., family] of Rechab.” |
| (0.37) | (2Ki 5:12) | 1 tn Heb “Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all of the waters of Israel?” The rhetorical question expects an emphatic “yes” as an answer. |
| (0.37) | (1Ki 10:23) | 1 tn Heb “King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth with respect to wealth and with respect to wisdom.” |
| (0.37) | (1Ki 9:22) | 1 sn These work crews. The work crews referred to here must be different than the temporary crews described in 5:13-16. |
| (0.37) | (1Ki 4:30) | 1 tn Heb “the wisdom of Solomon was greater than the wisdom of all the sons of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.” |
| (0.37) | (1Ki 2:32) | 2 tn Heb “because he struck down two men more innocent and better than he and he killed them with the sword, and my father David did not know.” |
| (0.37) | (1Ki 2:9) | 1 tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek and the Vulgate have here “you” rather than “now.” The two words are homonyms in Hebrew. |
| (0.37) | (2Sa 23:35) | 1 tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading חֶצְרַי (khetsray; cf. KJV, NAB) rather than the Kethib of the MT, חֶצְרוֹ (khetsro). |
| (0.37) | (2Sa 23:37) | 1 tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading the singular rather than the plural of the Kethib of the MT. |
| (0.37) | (2Sa 24:13) | 1 tc The LXX has here “three” rather than “seven,” and is followed by NAB, NIV, NCV, NRSV, TEV, NLT. See 1 Chr 21:12. |
| (0.37) | (2Sa 23:21) | 1 tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading אִישׁ (ʾish, “man”) rather than the Kethib of the MT, אֲשֶׁר (ʾasher, “who”). |
| (0.37) | (2Sa 23:29) | 1 tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss in reading חֵלֶד (kheled; cf. NAB, NIV, NLT) rather than the MT חֵלֶב (khelev). |
| (0.37) | (2Sa 23:20) | 1 tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading חַיִל (khayil, “valor”) rather than the Kethib of the MT, חַי (khay, “life”). |
| (0.37) | (2Sa 21:16) | 1 tn This name has the definite article and may be intended to refer to a group of people rather than a single individual with this name. |
| (0.37) | (2Sa 21:9) | 3 tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading בִּתְחִלַּת (bitkhillat, “in the beginning”) rather than MT תְחִלַּת (tekhillat, “beginning of”). |
| (0.37) | (2Sa 21:9) | 1 tc The translation follows the Qere and several medieval Hebrew mss in reading שְׁבַעְתָּם (shevaʿtam, “the seven of them”) rather than MT שִׁבַעְתִּים (shivaʿtim, “seventy”). |
| (0.37) | (2Sa 19:6) | 2 tc The translation follows the Qere, 4QSama, and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading לוּ (lu, “if”) rather than MT לֹא (loʾ, “not”). |
